Temperature change signals in northern Canada: convergence of statistical downscaling results using two driving GCMs

Abstract Coarse resolution global climate models (GCMs) have inherent difficulty simulating a reliable climate regime in coastal areas, as in northern Canada, where sea ice and snow cover are highly sensitive to fine‐scale climate forcings. As a result, strong biases are present in GCM temperature regimes in this region, and the direct use of raw‐GCM climate change signals at the local scale is problematic. However, fine resolution climate …