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... Bierbaum showed examples of the types of regional-scale changes that are projected to occur as a result of climate change (e.g., degradation of various ecosystems, fire hazard in boreal regions, shifts in forest biomes, regional precipitation changes)
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... Spatial Scaling. A question of great interest to researchers is whether one can use a scaling method to translate global mean values into spatial patterns of climate change, without having to rely on climate models.
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... Most modelers are not aware that these types of spatial scaling techniques were introduced many years ago and are widely applied in the climate impacts community, in software such as SCENGEN and COSMIC, and in several integrated assessment models. These scaling techniques are extremely valuable and should be applied more widely to studies of other forcing agents such as ozone and soot aerosols.
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