edu.ucar.opensky::articles:17722 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T03:11:40.322996 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7dn46gp Uses of results of regional climate model experiments for impacts and adaptation studies: The example of NARCCAP 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7dn46gp https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-015-0004-8 Mearns, Linda O. author Lettenmaier, D. author McGinnis, Seth A. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher We assess the use of the output of the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program's (NARCCAP) regional climate model simulations for future climate impacts and adaptation studies. Over 30 publications have appeared across a wide range of impacts areas, such as hydrology, human health, wild fire risk, and species distributions. The main value of NARCCAP for the impacts researchers was allowing them to explore the effect of the uncertainty of spatial scale of scenarios on their impacts calculations. For example, several studies found that the variability across the higher resolution simulations had as much effect as using output from different global climate models, when applied to their impacts models. We determined the three main reasons the authors used the NARCCAP datasets: the higher spatial resolution (and the assumption of the attendant added value), the availability of many (53) variables at high temporal resolution (3 hourly), and the fact that the dataset was developed for use in impacts studies. This last refers to the issue of confidence in the information being provided based on the motivations and expertise of the providers. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com None eng geoscientificInformation