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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2959-2020
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Data description paper
| 
18 Nov 2020
Data description paper |
| 18 Nov 2020
| 18 Nov 2020
An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets
Maialen Iturbide
Grupo de Meteorología, Instituto de Física de Cantabria
(CSIC-UC), Santander, Spain
José M. Gutiérrez
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Grupo de Meteorología, Instituto de Física de Cantabria
(CSIC-UC), Santander, Spain
Lincoln M. Alves
National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos,
Brazil
Joaquín Bedia
Grupo de Meteorología, Departamento de Matemática Aplicada y Ciencias de la
Computación, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Ruth Cerezo-Mota
Instituto de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City,
Mexico
Ezequiel Cimadevilla
Grupo de Meteorología, Departamento de Matemática Aplicada y Ciencias de la
Computación, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Antonio S. Cofiño
Grupo de Meteorología, Departamento de Matemática Aplicada y Ciencias de la
Computación, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Alejandro Di Luca
Climate Change Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for
Climate Extremes, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Sergio Henrique Faria
Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Leioa, Spain
IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
Irina V. Gorodetskaya
CESAM – Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of
Physics, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Mathias Hauser
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich,
Switzerland
Sixto Herrera
Grupo de Meteorología, Departamento de Matemática Aplicada y Ciencias de la
Computación, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Kevin Hennessy
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Melbourne, Australia
Helene T. Hewitt
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
Richard G. Jones
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, United
Kingdom
Svitlana Krakovska
Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center, Kyiv,
Ukraine
Rodrigo Manzanas
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), WGI-TSU,
Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
Grupo de Meteorología, Departamento de Matemática Aplicada y Ciencias de la
Computación, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Daniel Martínez-Castro
Instituto de Meteorología de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
Instituto Geofísico del Perú, Lima, Peru
Gemma T. Narisma
Manila Observatory, Ateneo de Manila University Campus, Quezon
City, Philippines
Intan S. Nurhati
Research Center for Oceanography, Indonesian Institute of
Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia
Izidine Pinto
Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG), University of Cape Town, Cape Town,
South Africa
Sonia I. Seneviratne
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich,
Switzerland
Bart van den Hurk
Deltares, Delft, the Netherlands
Carolina S. Vera
Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA), CONICET-UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Instituto Franco-Argentino sobre Estudios de Clima y sus Impactos (UMI-IFAECI), CNRS-CONICET-UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Data sets
IPCC WGI reference regions (version 4). SantanderMetGroup/ATLAS GitHub (Version v1.6) M. Iturbide, J. M. Gutiérrez, E. Cimadevilla, J. Bedia, M. Hauser, and R. Manzanas https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3998463
Model code and software
Regionmask: plotting and creation of masks of spatial regions (Version 0.6.1) M. Hauser https://zenodo.org/record/3992368#.X5-UPzEo-yV
Short summary
We present an update of the IPCC WGI reference regions used in AR5 for the synthesis of climate change information. This revision was guided by the basic principles of climatic consistency and model representativeness (in particular for the new CMIP6 simulations). We also present a new dataset of monthly CMIP5 and CMIP6 spatially aggregated information using the new reference regions and describe a worked example of how to use this dataset to inform regional climate change studies.
We present an update of the IPCC WGI reference regions used in AR5 for the synthesis of climate...
