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Fine-Resolution climate projections enhance regional climate change impact studies
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering
  • Edwin P. Maurer, Santa Clara University
  • Levi Brekke
  • Tom Pruitt
  • Philip P. Duffy
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2007
Abstract

A new data set enhances the abilities of researchers and decision-makers to assess possible future climates, explore societal impacts, and approach policy responses from a risk-based perspective. The data set, which consists of a library of 112 fine-resolution climate projections, based on 16 climate models and three greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, is now publicly available. Monthly climate projections from 1950 to 2099 were downscaled to a spatial resolution of 1/8° (about 140 square kilometers per grid cell) covering the conterminous United States and portions of Canada and Mexico.

Citation Information
Maurer, E.P., L. Brekke, T. Pruitt, and P.B. Duffy, 2007, Fine-resolution climate change projections enhance regional climate change impact studies, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 88(47), 504, doi:10.1029/2007EO470006