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Using Generative Art to Convey Past and Future Climate Transitions
Published on: March 31, 2023
High-resolution and bias-corrected CMIP5 projections for climate change impact assessments
Carlos Navarro-Racines1,2, Jaime Tarapues1,2, Philip Thornton2,3
1International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia.
Abstract:
Projections of climate change are available at coarse scales (70-400 km). But agricultural and species models typically require finer scale climate data to model climate change impacts. Here, we present a global database of future climates developed by applying the delta method -a method for climate model bias correction. We performed a technical evaluation of the bias-correction method using a 'perfect sibling' framework and show that it reduces climate model bias by 50-70%. The data include monthly maximum and minimum temperatures and monthly total precipitation, and a set of bioclimatic indices, and can be used for assessing impacts of climate change on agriculture and biodiversity. The data are publicly available in the World Data Center for Climate (WDCC; cera-www.dkrz.de), as well as in the CCAFS-Climate data portal (http://ccafs-climate.org). The database has been used up to date in more than 350 studies of ecosystem and agricultural impact assessment.
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