Choice of Downscaled Climate Product Matters: Projections of Valley Fever Seasonality in a Warming Climate.

ABSTRACT: Downscaled climate projections provide valuable information needed to better understand the impacts of climate change on health outcomes and to inform adaptation and mitigation strategies at local to regional scales. Because downscaled climate products vary in their representations of fine-scale spatiotemporal patterns, due to of multiple interacting factors, epidemiologic analyses need to consider how differences across downscaling approaches impact projections of health impacts into the future. We evaluate the projected seasonality of coccidioidomycosis in response to projected temperature and precipitation estimated using global climate models from CMIP6 included in California's Fifth Climate Change Assessment, downscaled using two approaches: (a) dynamical downscaling using the Weather

SUBMITTER: Schollaert CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12754269 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature