Climate Scenarios
An "ensemble" of daily temperature and precipitation scenarios was developed for 15 locations in the Great Lakes region. A minimum of 60 scenarios per climate parameter are available for each location. These scenarios are constructed using multiple downscaling methods applied to several Global Climate Model (GCM) simulations and can be summarized as follows:
15 locations
3 climate parameters
-maximum temperature (Tmax)
-minimum temperature (Tmin)
-precipitation
4 GCMs
-CCC CGCM2
-HadCM2
-MPI ECHAM4
-NCAR CSM1.2
2 emission scenarios
-A2
-B2
5 downscaling methodologies