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_ScienceBase Catalog
__National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
___Southeast CASC
____FY 2013 Projects
_____Downscaling Climate Projections to Understand Future Temperature and Precipitation Patterns in the Southeast
The 20th century climate for the Southeastern United States and surrounding areas as simulated by global climate models used in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) was evaluated. A suite of statistics that characterize various aspects of the regional climate was calculated from both model simulations and observation-based datasets. CMIP5 global climate models were ranked by their ability to reproduce the observed climate. Differences in the performance of the models between regions of the United States (the Southeastern and Northwestern United States) warrant a regional-scale assessment of CMIP5 models.
