Dynamical downscaling CMIP6 models over New Zealand: Added value of climatology and extremes

PB Gibson, S Stuart, A Sood, D Stone, N Rampal… - Climate Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
Dynamical downscaling provides physics-based high-resolution climate change projections
across regional and local scales. This is particularly important for island nations …

Comparison of three reanalysis‐driven regional climate models over New Zealand: Climatology and extreme events

I Campbell, PB Gibson, S Stuart… - International Journal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Three~ 12‐km reanalysis‐driven regional climate models (RCMs) are evaluated in
terms of capturing climatologies and extremes of precipitation, temperature and surface wind …

A reliable generative adversarial network approach for climate downscaling and weather generation

N Rampal, PB Gibson, S Sherwood… - Journal of Advances …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Anticipating climate impacts and risks in present or future climates requires predicting the
statistics of high‐impact weather events at fine‐scales. Direct numerical simulations of fine …

Aotearoa New Zealand's 21st‐century wildfire climate

N Melia, S Dean, HG Pearce, L Harrington… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfire is a highly variable natural phenomenon, yet despite this, climate change is already
making wildfire conditions measurably worse around the world; however, detailed …

Storylines for future projections of precipitation over New Zealand in CMIP6 models

PB Gibson, N Rampal, SM Dean… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Large uncertainty exists in the sign of long‐term changes in regional scale mean
precipitation across the current generation of global climate models. To explore the physical …

Drought analysis in New Zealand using the standardized precipitation index

T Caloiero - Environmental Earth Sciences, 2017 - Springer
The present article investigates drought events in New Zealand through the application of
the SPI at various timescales (3, 6, 12 and 24 months). First, a temporal analysis has been …

Intercomparison of different uncertainty sources in hydrological climate change projections for an alpine catchment (upper Clutha River, New Zealand)

AM Jobst, DG Kingston, NJ Cullen… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2018 - hess.copernicus.org
As climate change is projected to alter both temperature and precipitation, snow-controlled
mid-latitude catchments are expected to experience substantial shifts in their seasonal …

New Zealand river hydrology under late 21st century climate change

DBG Collins - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Climate change is increasingly affecting the water cycle and as freshwater plays a vital role
in countries' societal and environmental well-being it is important to develop national …

Projection of future extreme precipitation: a robust assessment of downscaled daily precipitation

HX Pham, AY Shamseldin, BW Melville - Natural Hazards, 2021 - Springer
Statistical and dynamic downscaling approaches are commonly used to downscale large-
scale climatic variables from global circulation (GCM) and regional circulation (RCM) model …

Evaluating methods to simulate crop rotations for climate impact assessments–a case study on the Canterbury plains of New Zealand

EI Teixeira, HE Brown, J Sharp, ED Meenken… - … Modelling & Software, 2015 - Elsevier
Most climate impact assessments for food production simulate single crops with re-initialised
soil conditions. However, crop rotations with multiple crops are used in many agricultural …