Regional dynamical downscaling and the CORDEX initiative

F Giorgi, WJ Gutowski Jr - Annual review of environment and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
We review the challenges and future perspectives of regional climate model (RCM), or
dynamical downscaling, activities. Among the main technical issues in need of better …

Thirty years of regional climate modeling: where are we and where are we going next?

F Giorgi - Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The year 2019 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the development of the first regional climate
model (RCM), and here an overview is provided of the progress in regional modeling …

What can we know about future precipitation in Africa? Robustness, significance and added value of projections from a large ensemble of regional climate models

A Dosio, RG Jones, C Jack, C Lennard, G Nikulin… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
We employ a large ensemble of Regional Climate Models (RCMs) from the COordinated
Regional-climate Downscaling EXperiment to explore two questions:(1) what can we know …

The impact of ENSO on Southern African rainfall in CMIP5 ocean atmosphere coupled climate models

B Dieppois, M Rouault, M New - Climate dynamics, 2015 - Springer
We study the ability of 24 ocean atmosphere global coupled models from the Coupled
Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) to reproduce the teleconnections between El Niño …

Performance assessment of three convective parameterization schemes in WRF for downscaling summer rainfall over South Africa

SB Ratna, JV Ratnam, SK Behera, CJW Rautenbach… - Climate dynamics, 2014 - Springer
Austral summer rainfall over the period 1991/1992 to 2010/2011 was dynamically
downscaled by the weather research and forecasting (WRF) model at 9 km resolution for …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of alternative soil data sources on the uncertainties in simulated land-atmosphere interactions

Z Zhang, P Laux, J Baade, J Arnault, J Wei… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Numerical weather-and climate prediction models rely on soil data to accurately model land
surface processes. However, as soil data are produced using soil profiles and maps with …

Climate change projections over India by a downscaling approach using PRECIS

PK Bal, A Ramachandran, K Palanivelu… - Asia-Pacific journal of …, 2016 - Springer
This study presents a comprehensive assessment of the possible regional climate change
over India by using Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies (PRECIS), a regional …

A large ensemble approach to quantifying internal model variability within the WRF numerical model

R Bassett, PJ Young, GS Blair… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) community model is widely used to
explore cross‐scale atmospheric features. Although WRF uncertainty studies exist, these …

Tropical-temperate interactions over southern Africa simulated by a regional climate model

N Vigaud, B Pohl, J Crétat - Climate Dynamics, 2012 - Springer
Abstract The Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) forced by ERA40 re-
analyses, is used to examine, at regional scale, the role of key features of the local …

[HTML][HTML] From synoptic to interdecadal variability in southern African rainfall: Toward a unified view across time scales

B Pohl, B Dieppois, J Crétat, D Lawler… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
From Synoptic to Interdecadal Variability in Southern African Rainfall: Toward a Unified
View across Time Scales in: Journal of Climate Volume 31 Issue 15 (2018) Jump to Content …