Institution: Santander Meteorology Group (CSIC-UC)
Summary: Escenarios-PNACC 2012 is a dataset of regional climate change projections over Spain based on IPCC-AR4 (CMIP3) projections from global circulation models. Besides the contribution from AEMET, this project was funded by two strategic actions for energy and climate change of the Spanish R+D 2008–2011 Program (ESCENA and ESTCENA, codes 200800050084265 and 200800050084078, for dynamical and statistical downscaling, respectively; see Gutiérrez et al. 2012 and Fernández et al. 2012). The observational dataset is based on a selection of stations provided by AEMET and on the gridded observations provided by Spain02 v2 (regular grids, at a 20km resolution; see Herrera et al. 2013). More info at (in Spanish) http://www.aemet.es/es/serviciosclimaticos/cambio_climat/datos_mensuales/ayuda.
References: Statistical Downscaling: Gutierrez, J.M. et al. (2012) Escenarios-PNACC 2012: Descripcion y Analisis de los Resultados de Regionalizacion Estadistica. En "Cambio climatico: Extremos e Impactos". Publicaciones de la AEC. Serie A, n8, 125-134. ISBN: 978-84-695-4331-3 (Available at http://www.meteo.unican.es/node/73082). See also http://www.aemet.es/es/serviciosclimaticos/cambio_climat/datos_mensuales. Gutierrez, J. M. et al. (2013). Reassessing Statistical Downscaling Techniques for Their Robust Application under Climate Change Conditions. Journal of Climate 26 (1): 171–188. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00687.1. San-Martin, D. et al. (2017). Reassessing Model Uncertainty for Regional Projections of Precipitation with an Ensemble of Statistical Downscaling Methods. Journal of Climate 30 (1): 203–23. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0366.1. Herrera et al. (2013) Development and analysis of a 50‐year high‐resolution daily gridded precipitation dataset over Spain (Spain02). International Journal of Climatology, 32(1), 74-85. Dynamical Downscaling: Jimenez-Guerrero, P. et al. (2013) Mean fields and interannual variability in RCM simulations over Spain: the ESCENA project. Climate Research 57:201-220. doi: 10.3354/cr01165. Dominguez, M. et al. (2013) Present-climate precipitation and temperature extremes over Spain from a set of high resolution RCMs. Climate Research 58:149-164. doi: 10.3354/cr01186. Fernandez et al. (2012) Escenarios-PNACC 2012: Resultados de regionalizacion dinamica. En "Cambio climatico: Extremos e Impactos". Publicaciones de la AEC. Serie A, n8. ISBN: 978-84-695-4331-3 (Available at http://www.meteo.unican.es/node/73108)
Terms of use: Dataset included in the User Data Gateway (UDG, http://www.meteo.unican.es/udg-wiki) maintained by the Santander Meteorology Group (CSIC-UC). Register and accept the data policy of the Group "Escenarios PNACC" to access to this dataset.
