Mean of Minimum Temperature for Current Climate (1950-1999)

Model Run: Control - Current Climate (Observed/current climate as modelled by climate model). The Self-Organizing Map Downscaling (SOMD) was developed at the Climate Systems Analysis Group (CSAG)[1], University of Cape Town. This is a leading empirical downscaled technique and provides meteorological station level response to global climate change forcing (See Hewitson and Crane (2006) for methodological details and Wilby et al. (2004) for a review of this and other statistical downscaling methodologies). Downscaling of a General Circulation Model (GCM) is accomplished by deriving the normative local response from the atmospheric state on a given day, as defined from historical observed data. [1] http://www.csag.uct.ac.za/

模式运行：控制情景——当前气候（由气候模式模拟得到的观测/当前气候）。自组织映射降尺度（Self-Organizing Map Downscaling，SOMD）由开普敦大学气候系统分析小组（Climate Systems Analysis Group，CSAG）[1]研发。该方法属于主流的经验降尺度技术，可提供气象站点尺度下对全球气候变化强迫的响应结果（相关方法细节可参阅Hewitson与Crane（2006）的研究，该方法及其他统计降尺度方法的综述可参考Wilby等（2004）的成果）。通用环流模式（General Circulation Model，GCM）的降尺度处理，通过从历史观测数据所定义的逐日大气状态中提取典型局地响应得以实现。[1] http://www.csag.uct.ac.za/