NE CSC works with Vermont researchers to improve climate assessments in Lake Champlain region

NE CSC researchers Jonathan Winter and Radley Horton are working with scientists at the University of Vermont to improve downscaling of general circulation model (GCM) data for climate change impacts assessments in the Lake Champlain Basin as part of the VT Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).  This effort investigates the potential for using high-resolution topographic data to further downscale existing bias-corrected and statistically downscaled GCM simulations of temperature and precipitation.  VT EPSCoR scientists and stakeholders will use the resulting dataset to evaluate projected changes in climate across, as well as drive hydrologic and ecological models for, the Lake Champlain Basin.  Investigators hope that the methods developed will be applicable throughout the NE for climate change assessments and impacts modeling.  Jonathan will help present preliminary findings of this research at the VT EPSCoR Annual State Meeting in Burlington next week.