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Models and Methods

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Climate Models and Ensembles

  • What is a climate model?
  • What is a model ensemble?
  • Why use a model ensemble?
  • Why is there a spread of values in the ensembles?

CMIP and CORDEX

  • What is CMIP?
  • What is CORDEX?
  • What is the difference between CMIP5 and CMIP6?

Emission Scenarios

  • What is an emission scenario?
  • What is RCP?
  • What is SSP?
  • What do different RCPs mean?
  • What do different SSPs mean?

Bias adjustment

  • What is bias adjustment?
  • What is HydroGFD?
  • What is the DBS method?
  • What is the MIdAS method?

Climate Scenarios and Indicators

  • What is a climate scenario?
  • What is a climate indicator?

Water Impacts

  • What are water impacts?
  • What is HYPE?

Tools

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Site-Specific Report

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  • How to use the Site-Specific Report?

Data Access Platform

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  • How to use the Data Access Platform?

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