Regional climate modeling: progress, challenges, and prospects

Y Wang, LR Leung, JL McGREGOR, DK Lee… - Journal of the …, 2004 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Regional climate modeling using regional climate models (RCMs) has matured over the
past decade to enable meaningful utilization in a broad spectrum of applications. In this …

The state of the art and fundamental aspects of regional climate modeling in South America

T Ambrizzi, MS Reboita, RP da Rocha… - Annals of the new york …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Regional climate models have been used since 1989 in order to improve climate simulation
in regions where mesoscale forcings modulate the regional climate. These models are …

[PDF][PDF] Future change of temperature and precipitation extremes in South America as derived from the PRECIS regional climate modeling system

JA Marengo, R Jones, LM Alves… - International Journal of …, 2009 - academia.edu
Using the PRECIS regional climate modeling system this study analyses the distribution of
extremes of temperature and precipitation in South America in the recent past (1961–1990) …

Climate change projections for the tropical Andes using a regional climate model: Temperature and precipitation simulations for the end of the 21st century

R Urrutia, M Vuille - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
High‐elevation tropical mountain regions may be more strongly affected by future climate
change than their surrounding lowlands. In the tropical Andes a significant increase in …

Regional climate modeling for the developing world: the ICTP RegCM3 and RegCNET

JS Pal, F Giorgi, X Bi, N Elguindi… - Bulletin of the …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
Regional climate models are important research tools available to scientists around the
world, including in economically developing nations (EDNs). The Earth Systems Physics …

Future change of climate in South America in the late twenty-first century: intercomparison of scenarios from three regional climate models

JA Marengo, T Ambrizzi, RP Da Rocha, LM Alves… - Climate dynamics, 2010 - Springer
Regional climate change projections for the last half of the twenty-first century have been
produced for South America, as part of the CREAS (Cenarios REgionalizados de Clima …

Influence of the Andes Mountains on South American moisture transport, convection, and precipitation

N Insel, CJ Poulsen, TA Ehlers - Climate Dynamics, 2010 - Springer
Mountain ranges are known to have a first-order control on mid-latitude climate, but previous
studies have shown that the Andes have little effect on the large-scale circulation over South …

Downscaling of South America present climate driven by 4-member HadCM3 runs

SC Chou, JA Marengo, AA Lyra, G Sueiro… - Climate dynamics, 2012 - Springer
The objective of this work is to evaluate climate simulations over South America using the
regional Eta Model driven by four members of an ensemble of the UK Met Office Hadley …

Mean, interannual variability and trends in a regional climate change experiment over Europe. I. Present-day climate (1961–1990)

F Giorgi, X Bi, JS Pal - Climate Dynamics, 2004 - Springer
We present an analysis of a multidecadal simulation of present-day climate (1961–1990)
over Europe with the regional climate model RegCM nested within the global atmospheric …

Increase in summer European ozone amounts due to climate change

F Meleux, F Solmon, F Giorgi - Atmospheric environment, 2007 - Elsevier
The local and regional distribution of pollutants is significantly influenced by weather
patterns and variability along with the spatial patterns of emissions. Therefore, climatic …