Technical Guidelines, Fact Sheets and other Supporting Material

Several documents providing technical guidelines⁽¹⁾, fact sheets⁽²⁾ or other summarising information held on the DDC are downloadable from this site. The process for developing technical guidelines is described here and fact sheets here. They constitute IPCC "Supporting Material"⁽³⁾ and have been prepared at the request of the Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impacts and Climate Analysis (TGICA). Note that the documents listed here have not been subject to the formal intergovernmental IPCC review process.

TGICA has developed a general guideline on the use of scenario data, which has three main objectives:

More detailed technical guidelines relate to issues such as the development and application of data and scenarios held on the DDC and elsewhere for use in vulnerability, impacts and adaptation assessments (see schematic diagram).

It is strongly recommended that you familiarise yourself with the appropriate guidelines before downloading data from the DDC.

The guidance documents are available as .pdf files, to view this you will need Acrobat Reader which available free from the Adobe web site.

General Guidelines

• General Guidelines on the use of Scenario Data for Climate Impact and Adaptation Assessment, Version 2 (2007).
  • Version 1 [superseded] (1999)

Detailed Guidelines

• Guidelines for Use of Climate Scenarios Developed from Regional Climate Model Experiments. (Published October 2003)
• Guidelines for Use of Climate Scenarios Developed from Statistical Downscaling Methods. (Published September 2004)
• Constructing Sea-Level Scenarios for Impact and Adaptation Assessment of Coastal Areas: A Guidance Document (Published October 2011).

  • Proof [superseded] (2011)

• CMIP5 data provided at the IPCC Data Distribution Centre (Published September 2016)

• Future climate in world regions: an intercomparison of model-based projections for the new IPCC emissions scenarios (2003)
• DDC Brochure: an outline of the services provided by the DDC (Published 10 March 2009)
• Approach to Scenario Development for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

Capacity Building

• Framework to facilitate development of appropriate data products and research capacity in developing and transition-economy countries (2008).

Finally, if you have any questions about the DDC, find errors on the site, or have general questions about climate scenarios then please contact the DDC managers through the helpdesk (support@ceda.ac.uk).

⁽¹⁾ Notes for authors preparing technical guidelines for the IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA)
⁽²⁾ Notes for authors preparing Fact Sheets for the IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA)
⁽³⁾ Supporting material is defined in the Procedures for the Preparation, Review, Acceptance, Adoption, Approval, and Publication of IPCC Reports.