Conclusions summary of the survey on up/downscaling at IPSL
- up and downscaling are hold as important research topics at IPSL, in particular
for the study of local climatic changes, their impact at regional scales,
local extremes and model/data comparisons,
- at least one person in each IPSL laboratory is interested in these subjects
(CETP: 1, LMD: 2, LOCEAN: 3, LSCE: 2, SA: 1, and an additional person at Climpact),
- 6 IPSL members have recently published on these subject (already published or pending papers),
- everyone is interested in downscaling, whereas 70% of the probed people are in upscaling,
- few users only are developping tools,
- everyone is using spatial up/downscaling spatial, whereas a single person is also working
on time dimension,
- all the surveyed people are using statistical methods and half of them are also using
dynamical downscaling,
- people are not only collaborating within IPSL, but also with other non-IPSL laboratories
researchers for national, european and american projects,
- there is a general need of exchanges on up/downscaling themes (dedicated meetings,
presentations of methods and statistical softwares)
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