AUTHOR=von Storch Hans , Zorita Eduardo TITLE=The History of Ideas of Downscaling—From Synoptic Dynamics and Spatial Interpolation JOURNAL=Frontiers in Environmental Science VOLUME=7 YEAR=2019 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00021 DOI=10.3389/fenvs.2019.00021 ISSN=2296-665X ABSTRACT=

The history of ideas, which lead to the now matured concept of empirical downscaling, with various technical procedures, is rooted in two concepts, that of synoptic climatology and that of spatial interpolation in a phase space. In the former case, the basic idea is to estimate from a synoptic weather map the regional details, and to assemble these details into a regional climatology. In the other approach, a shortcut is made, in that samples of (monthly, seasonal, or annual) large-scale dynamical statistics (i.e., climate) are linked to a sample of local statistics of some variables of interest.