Journal article
Global climate analogues for winegrowing regions in future periods: Projections of temperature and precipitation
LB Webb, I Watterson, J Bhend, PH Whetton, EWR Barlow
Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research | Published : 2013
DOI: 10.1111/ajgw.12045
Abstract
Background and Aims: Climate is a key consideration for winegrowers, so information regarding projected climate change and the relative global impacts are of great interest. Methods and Results: This climate analogue approach compares and contrasts future to current climate among the regions. Warming was projected for all regions, with greater warming in Northern Hemisphere continental regions and less for Southern Hemisphere and coastal regions. Projections of annual precipitation varied, with the median result from the range of models indicating a wetter climate for higher latitude regions, such as New Zealand, Mosel Valley and North Oregon, and the Chinese region in this study, while Sout..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the modelling groups, the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Working Group on Coupled Modelling for their roles in making available the WCRP CMIP3 multimodel dataset. Support of this dataset is provided by the Office of Science, US Government Department of Energy. This work was partly funded by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Climate Adaptation National Research Flagship and also by the Australian Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation. The authors acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions by Michael Grose and WonMoo Kim from CSIRO.