Comparison of temperature indices for three IPCC SRES scenarios based on RegCM simulations for Poland in 2011–2030 period

Climate change over the high-mountain versus plain areas: Effects on the land surface hydrologic budget in the Alpine area and northern Italy

“…Furthermore, the SRES scenarios by themselves have often been adopted in most recent studies, even long after the release of the RCP scenarios, because the old scenarios were in accord with their objectives (e.g., Dunford et al, 2015;Jaczewski et al, 2015;Kiguchi et al, 2015;Kim et al, 2015;Casajus et al, 2016;Harrison et al, 2016;Mamoon et al, 2016;Stevanović et al, 2016;Tukimat and Alias, 2016;Zheng et al, 2016;Hassan et al, 2017;Park et al, 2017;da Silva et al, 2017). We employed the SRES marker scenarios because of their long-term consistency in assessing the impact of climate change on global and regional factors of socioeconomy and environment during the last decade -including air quality (Jacob and Winner, 2009;Carvalho et al, 2010), water quality and resources (Wilby et al, 2006;Shen et al, 2008Shen et al, , 2014Luo et al, 2013), energy (Hoogwijk et al, 2005;van Vliet et al, 2012), agriculture and forestry (Lavalle et al, 2009;Calzadilla et al, 2013;Stevanović et al, 2016;Zubizarreta-Gerendiain et al, 2016), fisheries (Barange et al, 2014;Lam et al, 2016), health and disease (Patz et al, 2005;Giorgi and Diffenbaugh, 2008;Ogden et al, 2014), climate and weather extremes (Déqué, 2007;Marengo et al, 2009;Jiang et al, 2012;Rummukainen, 2012), wildfires …”

Reply to the Comments by Referee #2

“…Furthermore, the SRES scenarios by themselves have often been adopted in most recent studies, even long after the release of the RCP scenarios, because the old scenarios were in accord with their objectives (e.g., Dunford et al, 2015;Jaczewski et al, 2015;Kiguchi et al, 2015;Kim et al, 2015;Casajus et al, 2016;Harrison et al, 2016;Mamoon et al, 2016;Stevanović et al, 2016;Tukimat and Alias, 2016;Zheng et al, 2016;Hassan et al, 2017;Park et al, 2017;da Silva et al, 2017). We employed the SRES marker scenarios because of their long-term consistency in assessing the impact of climate change on global and regional factors of socioeconomy and environment during the last decade -including air quality (Jacob and Winner, 2009;Carvalho et al, 2010), water quality and resources (Wilby et al, 2006;Shen et al, 2008Shen et al, , 2014Luo et al, 2013), energy (Hoogwijk et al, 2005;van Vliet et al, 2012), agriculture and forestry (Lavalle et al, 2009;Calzadilla et al, 2013;Stevanović et al, 2016;Zubizarreta-Gerendiain et al, 2016), fisheries (Barange et al, 2014;Lam et al, 2016), health and disease (Patz et al, 2005;Giorgi and Diffenbaugh, 2008;Ogden et al, 2014), climate and weather extremes (Déqué, 2007;Marengo et al, 2009;Jiang et al, 2012;Rummukainen, 2012), wildfires (Liu et al, 20...…”

Assessment of Air Thermal Conditions in the Lowland Part of South-Western Poland for Agriculture Development Purposes

“…In most countries, the implementation of adopted strategies for adapting agriculture to climate change is still not well advanced [3,31]. However, there is an increasingly notable need to take into account regional climate changes in economic forecasts for many sectors, including agriculture, and in preparation of recommendations for adapting farms to climate change [12,[32][33][34]. The research conducted so far in Poland concerned various aspects of climate change [35][36][37][38][39] and its impact, among others, on the shaping of agro-climatic conditions on a national scale [21,23,40], on the development of pests [25], as well as on a regional scale, which includes works describing crop-weather relationship studies [41].…”

“…The research conducted so far in Poland concerned various aspects of climate change [35][36][37][38][39] and its impact, among others, on the shaping of agro-climatic conditions on a national scale [21,23,40], on the development of pests [25], as well as on a regional scale, which includes works describing crop-weather relationship studies [41]. A separate group is the research that is related to the development and use of climate change scenarios [33]. This article is part of the study on monitoring temperature changes on a regional scale, and because of the significance of the Lower Silesia region in crop production, it is important from the point of view of future adaptation of agriculture to climate change.…”