Sentences with phrase «local climate archives»

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Take some representative set of climate models predicting the climate at the end of the 21st century given some scenario of emissions (for example the 20 models in the archive established by IPCC for the 4th assessment) and compute this global measure of local impact.

Adding local information, not captured in the coarse scale climate model or observational archives, can provide an improved representation of the relevant processes at this scale, and thus yield additional information, for instance concerning topography, land use or small scale features such as sea breezes or organisation of convection.