Downscaling socioeconomic and emissions scenarios for global environmental change research: a review

Global change research encompasses various scales from global to local. Impacts analysis in particular often requires spatial downscaling, whereby socioeconomic and emission variables specified at relatively large spatial scales are translated to values at a country or grid level. In this article, the methods used for spatial downscaling are reviewed, classified, and current applications discussed. It is shown that in recent years, improved methods for downscaling have been developed.

Authors

Detlef P. van Vuuren, Steve J. Smith, Keywan Riahi

Specifications

Publication title
Downscaling socioeconomic and emissions scenarios for global environmental change research: a review
Publication date
16 April 2010
Publication type
Publication
Magazine
WIREs Climate Change
Product number
92475