Editing IPCC:AR6/WGI/Chapter-Atlas (section)

===== Atlas.2.4.2.2 Insights From Physical Understanding =====

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The detailed technical findings in IPCC reports also serve as an important benchmark resource for the research community. The Interactive Atlas complements the IPCC assessment report as a repository of scientific information on global and regional climate and its representation in coordinated model ensemble experiments. Regional climate is governed by a mixture of drivers, such as circulation patterns, seasonal monsoons, annual cycles of snow and regional land–atmosphere feedbacks. Global warming may affect regional climate characteristics by altering the dynamics of their drivers. The Interactive Atlas allows the comparison of different levels of global warming on specific regional climate features but is not designed for advanced analysis of the relationship between drivers and regional climate characteristics. For this, tailored analysis protocols need to be applied, such as the aggregation of climate change information from ensembles of regional climate projections, and stratification according to drivers of regional climate such as patterns of atmospheric circulation ( [[#Lenderink--2014|Lenderink et al., 2014]] ). The analysis of complex regional climate characteristics resulting from compound drivers also require additional expert knowledge and data processing ( [[#Thompson--2016|Thompson et al., 2016]] ). [[IPCC:Wg1:Chapter:Chapter-12#12.6.2|Section 12.6.2]] assesses various categories of climate services, including tailored analysis of regional climate processes.

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