class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide .title[ # Downscaling approaches for climate model projections in complex terrain ] .subtitle[ ## From snow cover duration to meteorology ] .author[ ### Michael Matiu, Florian Hanzer, Anna Napoli, Bruno Majone, & others ] .date[ ### 2022/10/19 ] --- ## Setting the scene .pull-left[ Climate model projections <img width="500" alt="GCM and EURO-CORDEX" src="https://www.nccs.admin.ch/nccs/en/home/climate-change-and-impacts/swiss-climate-change-scenarios/understanding-climate-change-scenarios/_jcr_content/par/image/image.imagespooler.png/1540980848821/Globus_EURO-CORDEX_V01.png"> ] .pull-right[ Complex mountainous terrain <img height="400" alt="Mountain image around Trento" src="fig/euregio-calendar-mountain.png"> ] .footnote[Online version of these slides and the poster: https://mitmat.github.io/slides/] --- ## The problem .center[<img height="450px" alt="Mountain and climate model grid cell" src="fig/gruber-mountain-gridcell.jpeg">] .footnote[Image by: [Stephan Gruber, Carleton University](https://carleton.ca/geography/people/gruberstephan/)] --- ## No solution, but... .pull-left[ - Empirical statistical downscaling of snow cover fraction/duration, directly from RCMs - Scale issues - Discuss: Downscaling of meteorology in complex terrain, elevational gradients ] .pull-right[ .center[<a title="Download poster as PDF" href="pdf/inarch_matiu_poster.pdf"><img height="400" alt="Poster image" src="fig/poster-screenshot.png"></a>] ] .footnote[Click on poster to download it as PDF]