Atmospheric Ocean System

Geographical Pattern Scaling, documentation, input and output

The globally averaged temperature change simulated by the Upwelling-Diffusion Climate Model (UDCM) needs to be scaled to obtain geographical implicit maps of temperature change and precipitation change.

Model documentation

The standardised approach to pattern-scaling is described in detail by Carter et al. (1994). The approach used to combine the geographical pattern-scaling for the combined climate response to forcing by greenhouse gases and sulphate aerosols, as summarised here, is described in detail by Schlesinger et al. (2000). Its implementation in IMAGE 2.2 is presented by Eickhout et al. (2001). This approach has not been changed in IMAGE 2.4, except for an update for the new 24 IMAGE regions. 

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