The role of observational reference data for climate downscaling: Insights from the VALUE COST Action

(1) Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Switzerland (sven.kotlarski@meteoswiss.ch), (2) University of Cantabria, Spain, (3) Danish Meteorological Institute, Denmark, (4) Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden, (5) Instituto Dom Luiz, Portugal, (6) Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, Austria, (7) Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway, (8) Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique, France, (9) University of Helsinki, Finland, (10) CZECHGLOBE Global Change Research Institute CAS, Czech Republic, (11) Hungarian Meteorological Service, Hungary