摘要 : We review coordinated efforts for producing regional climate projections through dynamical and statistical downscaling tools driven by global climate model output. Such projections are affected by multiple sources of uncertainty b... 展开 We review coordinated efforts for producing regional climate projections through dynamical and statistical downscaling tools driven by global climate model output. Such projections are affected by multiple sources of uncertainty both at the global model and at the downscaling levels. The characterization of these uncertainties and the production of robust regional to local projections for use in impact studies require the completion of properly designed large ensembles of experiments. Toward this purpose, several regional coordinated efforts have been conducted in the past, particularly involving regional climate models, but because of the lack of a common experiment protocol, the transfer of know-how across them has been difficult. This problem isbeing addressed in the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX), a framework designed to produce the next generation of worldwide high-resolution regional climate projections through a fully coordinated experiment protocol. 收起