Downscaling Discussion Group

Anji Seth
Eric Salathe
Robert Ogelsby
Phillipe Gachon
Richard Anyah
Bill Gutowski
Chuck H.

1. what level of preproccessing of data

• monthly-mean climatologies Tmin/Tmax/P for use in delta-method impacts studies
• identifying community members to assist in application of model output for impacts studies

2. Guidance materials

• references appropriate to the version of driving models and regional models used for narccap

3. Tools

• *any user-contibuted data or tools should provide references to be cited in publications that use data or tools
• Analysis tool for 16 Frich extreme indices from Phillipe Gachon McGill in fortran and matlab.
• distribute statistical downscaling tools (eg Wilby) via links to other web sites

4. Observational Datasets

• provides links to existing datasets (eg UW VIC data)
• gridded vs station data
• documentation of gridding methods etc

5. esg portal -- output formats, visualization, analysis, search

• getting user-contributed downscaled grids availble via esg las
  • d.s. global models to 50km for comparison to narccap regional models
  • d.s. narccap models to hi res for impacts studies
• providing predictors for statistical downscaling