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Making the most of climate impacts ensembles

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Increasing use of regionally and globally oriented impacts studies, coordinated across international modelling groups, promises to bring about a new era in climate impacts research. Coordinated cycles of model improvement and projection are needed to make the most of this potential.

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Figure 1: Relationship between models' relative errors and the number of genotypic and calibrated parameters for 27 wheat crop simulation models in The Netherlands, Argentina, India and Australia.
Figure 2: Proposed coordinated cycle of model improvement and projection, based on recognition of the strengths and weaknesses of global, regional and local studies.

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Challinor, A., Martre, P., Asseng, S. et al. Making the most of climate impacts ensembles. Nature Clim Change 4, 77–80 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2117

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