The goal of this project was to use the latest global climate models from CMIP5 and state of the science models of vegetation and hydrology, to describe as accurately as possible what the latest science says about the Northwest’s future climate, vegetation, and hydrology. Researchers in the project began by evaluating the ability of CMIP5 models to simulate observed climate patterns in the Northwest region (Rupp et al. 2013). The researchers then used the best performing models to project likely future changes to the Northwest’s climate, hydrology, and vegetation. The dynamic global vegetation model MC2 was run with CMIP5 climate projections downscaled by John Abatzoglou (MACA method) and Katherine Hegewisch from the University of [...]
