Definition of "downscaling" [downscaling]

• Present participle of downscale. (verb)

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• "I’m also learning that you can use statistical downscaling from the climate models to get finer grained regional simulations of the changes in rainfall, e.g. over the US, leading to predictions for increased precipitation over much of the US in the winters and decreased in the summers."
• "She said the government's "downscaling" of the training period would have a negative impact on the quality of care provided to pregnant mothers and also their new born offspring."
• "She wanted a 10 carat and I was kind of downscaling it to a 4 carat."