“…Because of the relatively coarse horizontal resolution of state‐of‐the‐art gridded observationally based climate products, which varies from 0.5° to 2.5° (~55 to ~280 km, respectively) and thus fails to resolve many of the Lesser Antilles (Dai, 2011; Jury et al, 2007; van der Schrier et al, 2013), we used statistically downscaled observed monthly precipitation and temperature ( T
min , T
mean , and T
max ) data from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (Schneider, Becker, Finger, Meyer‐Christoffer, Rudolf, et al, 2015; Schneider, Becker, Finger, Meyer‐Christoffer, & Ziese, 2015) and Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (Rohde et al, 2013), respectively. The validation of downscaled products and further details of the downscaling and bias‐correction procedures are described in Supporting Information S1 and in Herrera and Ault (2017).…”