Regionalized dynamic climate series for ecological climate impact research in modern controlled environment facilities

Modern controlled environment facilities (CEFs) enable the simulation of
dynamic microclimates in controlled ecological experiments through their
technical ability to precisely control multiple environmental parameters.
However, few CEF studies exploit the technical possibilities of their
facilities, as climate change treatments are frequently applied by static
manipulation of an inadequate number of climate change drivers, ignoring
intra-annual variability and co-variation of multiple meteorological
variables. We present so called Test Reference Years (TRY) that consist of
typical annual cycles of temperature, relative humidity, air pressure,
global radiation, photosynthetically active photon flux density,
tropospheric ozone concentration and CO2. The TRYs represent possible
annual cycles of a reference period (1987-2016) and the two contrasting
climate scenarios RCP2.6 and RCP8.5.