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 …

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 …

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 …

An improved dynamical downscaling method with GCM bias corrections and its validation with 30 years of climate simulations

Z Xu, ZL Yang - Journal of Climate, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
An improved dynamical downscaling method (IDD) with general circulation model (GCM)
bias corrections is developed and assessed over North America. A set of regional climate …

Northern African climate at the end of the twenty-first century: an integrated application of regional and global climate models

CM Patricola, KH Cook - Climate Dynamics, 2010 - Springer
A method for simulating future climate on regional space scales is developed and applied to
northern Africa. Simulation with a regional model allows for the horizontal resolution needed …

Methodology of the constraint condition in dynamical downscaling for regional climate evaluation: A review

SA Adachi, H Tomita - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The dynamical downscaling method with a regional climate model (RCM) is widely used to
assess the spatially detailed information about regional climate. However, the RCM result is …