Our research group studies the meteorology and climate of both polar regions
using regional climate models and numerical weather prediction models.
After obtaining precise ice shelf height data, the researchers
used a regional climate model to work out how much of the variability on a year - to - year basis was due to snowfall (which causes ice shelves to grow taller) versus ocean - driven melting (which causes ice shelves to thin from below).
Knutson et al project future changes in Atlantic TC behavior by
using a regional climate model (RCM) which produces tropical cyclones (though ones that are too weak — see discussion below) to «downscale» climate change impacts.
What I am saying is that
they used a regional climate model which did not include the changes in the Arctic region, and the boundary conditions they used were those predicted using GCMs that we know got the Arctic ice wrong!
Researchers
used a regional climate model to study links between a streak of cooler water in the tropical Atlantic during spring to the timing and intensity of West African monsoon rains.
Simulating the variation of the ice sheet's albedo
using a regional climate model — Modèle Atmosphérique Régionale (MAR), which some members of the team helped develop — indicated that increasing temperatures and melting accompanied by snow grain growth and greater bare ice exposure account for about half the decline, the scientists report.
(b) to (d): JJA temperatures for Switzerland observed during 1864 to 2003 (b), simulated
using a regional climate model for the period 1961 to 1990 (c) and simulated for 2071 to 2100 under the A2 scenario using boundary data from the HadAM3H GCM (d).
A study
using a regional climate model and the same indices of significant severe thunderstorms as have been used to diagnose their patterns in the current climate finds that, especially in the central and eastern United States (the preferred locations for severe weather anywhere in the world), we can expect a few more days per month with conditions favorable to severe thunderstorm occurrence in a doubled CO2 climate [12](Fig. 5).
To determine how much ice and snowfall enters a specific ice shelf and how much makes it to an iceberg, where it may split off, the research team
used a regional climate model for snow accumulation and combined the results with ice velocity data from satellites, ice shelf thickness measurements from NASA's Operation IceBridge — a continuing aerial survey of Earth's poles — and a new map of Antarctica's bedrock.
This assessment
used regional climate models (RCMs) to examine how climate extremes may change in the Columbia Basin.
Using a regional climate model combined with an urban model that allowed researchers to adjust roof reflectance, they found that the average urban midday temperature was lowered by 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) during heat waves, or 50 percent more than the 0.8 degrees Celsius reduction for typical summer conditions.
In order to do this they downscale output from a global climate model
using a regional climate model that can simulate vegetation dynamics.
Not exact matches
It's going to be one of the major topics at a
regional Climate Solutions Summit in Syracuse this weekend, as the city hopes to take the lead on an energy supply
model that
uses renewable energy.
They
used this data compilation to evaluate the quality of their
regional atmospheric
climate model, based on global
climate projections that included several scenarios of anticipated
climate change.
So it is not surprising that while the inure than a dozen major global
climate models in
use around the world tend to agree on the broadest phenomena, they differ wildly when it comes to
regional effects.
The global
climate models assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which are used to project global and regional climate change, are coarse resolution models based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and atmospheric dy
climate models assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), which are used to project global and regional climate change, are coarse resolution models based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and atmospheric dy
Climate Change (IPCC), which are
used to project global and
regional climate change, are coarse resolution models based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and atmospheric dy
climate change, are coarse resolution
models based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and atmospheric dynamics.
Vahmani and Jones
used a high - resolution
regional climate model for their analysis; Vahmani then added a component to the
model to account for irrigation water.
Colgan's team
used two different combinations of
regional and global
climate models to estimate how conditions might change at the camp's location in the future.
The analysis
uses methods that have already been peer - reviewed, including examining the change in occurrence of such extreme rains in the historical record and in
climate models, as well as
using finer - scale
regional climate models to compare the current
climate to one without warming.
Leung and Qian also participate in the North American
Climate Change Assessment Program to use multiple global and regional climate models to better quantify uncertainties in projecting climate
Climate Change Assessment Program to
use multiple global and
regional climate models to better quantify uncertainties in projecting climate
climate models to better quantify uncertainties in projecting
climate climate change.
After the field campaign, Fast will perform computer simulations to help evaluate all of the field campaign data and quantify the uncertainties associated with
using coarse grid global
climate models to study megacity emissions and to determine the radiative impact of the Mexico City particulates on the local and
regional climate.
Using a super-ensemble of
regional climate model simulations from the climateprediction.net experiment, we will determine how the carbon produced by these major industrial entities is contributing to the damages from
climate change.
A team at the University of Oxford in the UK, led by Myles Allen and Friederike Otto,
used thousands of iterations of
regional climate models embedded within larger global
models to examine more localized weather events.
The reduction of surface reflection due to biological activity, derived from our results, was
used as a proxy for a reduction in albedo in the
regional climate model Modèle Atmosphérique Régional (MAR; Fettweis et al., 2013) to project future microbially - mediated increases in GrIS melt (see Methodology, Supplementary Information).
What's Next: PNNL scientists are
using a
regional model at a much finer scale than conventional
climate models to understand the processes that determine the time - scales of MJO and the roles of various types of clouds in its energy cycle.
The weather@home
regional climate modelling system for Australia and New Zealand has been
used for a number of different experiments in 2016.
Find out how researchers are
using data from U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)
Climate Research Facility — the world's most comprehensive outdoor laboratory and data archive for research related to atmospheric processes that affect Earth's climate — to improving regional and global climate
Climate Research Facility — the world's most comprehensive outdoor laboratory and data archive for research related to atmospheric processes that affect Earth's
climate — to improving regional and global climate
climate — to improving
regional and global
climate climate models.
«[B] y making
use of 21 CMIP5 coupled
climate models, we study the contribution of external forcing to the Pacific Ocean
regional sea level variability over 1993 — 2013, and show that according to
climate models, externally forced and thereby the anthropogenic sea level fingerprint on
regional sea level trends in the tropical Pacific is still too small to be observable by satellite altimetry.»
Using models to distinguish between the forcing histories is thus likely to require a tighter focus on
regional changes, or in
climate patterns, more than the just the mean temperature.
If we had done a simple back - of - the - envelope estimate, surely someone would have criticized us for not
using a
climate model... Besides we also looked into
regional patterns and the sea - ice response in our paper, something one can not do without a
climate model.
Using (i) a state - of - the - art global
climate model and (ii) a low - order energy balance
model, we show that the global
climate feedback is fundamentally linked to the geographic pattern of
regional climate feedbacks and the geographic pattern of surface warming at any given time.
Again more sobering is «Development of
regional future
climate change scenarios in South America using the Eta CPTEC / HadCM3 climate change projections: climatology and regional analyses for the Amazon, São Francisco and the Paraná River basins» — a mouthful - titled publication in Climate Dynamics from 2012 that (indeed) uses the Hadley Centre climate model to conclude that droughts in the Amazon basin could increase rather dramat
climate change scenarios in South America
using the Eta CPTEC / HadCM3
climate change projections: climatology and regional analyses for the Amazon, São Francisco and the Paraná River basins» — a mouthful - titled publication in Climate Dynamics from 2012 that (indeed) uses the Hadley Centre climate model to conclude that droughts in the Amazon basin could increase rather dramat
climate change projections: climatology and
regional analyses for the Amazon, São Francisco and the Paraná River basins» — a mouthful - titled publication in
Climate Dynamics from 2012 that (indeed) uses the Hadley Centre climate model to conclude that droughts in the Amazon basin could increase rather dramat
Climate Dynamics from 2012 that (indeed)
uses the Hadley Centre
climate model to conclude that droughts in the Amazon basin could increase rather dramat
climate model to conclude that droughts in the Amazon basin could increase rather dramatically.
Khan says, «Since we need local and
regional information, we downscale the global data to local area information through the grid method,
using climate modelling.»
Sarah is also working on determining the natural and human components of observed
regional climate change in Australia,
using both observed and
climate model data.
In another study, a multi-year time series of surface radiative fluxes and other atmospheric properties measured by a DOE
climate program are being
used at AER to evaluate radiative fluxes and to validate forecasts of surface temperature and other properties in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)
regional model.
Unfortunately, the figure also confirms that the spatial resolution of theoutput from the GCMs
used in the Mediterranean study is too coarse for constructing detailed
regional scenarios.To develop more detailed
regional scenarios, modelers can combine the GCM results with output from statistical
models.3 This is done by constructing a statistical
model to explain the observed temperature or precipitation at a meteorological station in terms of a range of regionally - averaged
climate variables.
Dynamical downscaling
uses high - resolution
climate models to represent global or
regional sub-domains, and
uses either observed or lower - resolution AOGCM data as their boundary conditions.
This was done by calculating the
climate change occurring in each
model as a result of a 1 C increase in global mean temperature.The output from GCMs can be
used directly to construct
regional scenarios.
The Chair of Land -
Climate interactions investigates the role of land surface processes in the climate system using global (COSMOS) and regional (COSMO - CLM) climate models, land surface models (CLM, TerraLM), diagnostic estimates, ground and satellite observations, and field measur
Climate interactions investigates the role of land surface processes in the
climate system using global (COSMOS) and regional (COSMO - CLM) climate models, land surface models (CLM, TerraLM), diagnostic estimates, ground and satellite observations, and field measur
climate system
using global (COSMOS) and
regional (COSMO - CLM)
climate models, land surface models (CLM, TerraLM), diagnostic estimates, ground and satellite observations, and field measur
climate models, land surface
models (CLM, TerraLM), diagnostic estimates, ground and satellite observations, and field measurements.
«We studied
regional climate effects of land
use changes in the Western United States
using Regional Spectral
Model.
They arrived at the conclusion by
using innovative computer
modeling methods to simulate
regional patterns of
climate anomalies.
The simulated future emissions and land
use were downscaled from the
regional simulation to a grid to facilitate transfer to
climate models.
For the purpose, the PRECIS (Providing
REgional Climates for Impacts Studies) a
regional climate modelling system, of UK Met Office, is
used.
We quantify sea - level commitment in the baseline case by building on Levermann et al. (10), who
used physical simulations to
model the SLR within a 2,000 - y envelope as the sum of the contributions of (i) ocean thermal expansion, based on six coupled
climate models; (ii) mountain glacier and ice cap melting, based on surface mass balance and simplified ice dynamic
models; (iii) Greenland ice sheet decay, based on a coupled
regional climate model and ice sheet dynamic
model; and (iv) Antarctic ice sheet decay, based on a continental - scale
model parameterizing grounding line ice flux in relation to temperature.
A fully coupled
regional climate, 3D lake
modeling system is
used to investigate the physical mechanisms associated with the multiscale variability of the Lake Victoria basin
climate.
This result suggests that current projections of
regional climate change may be questionable.This finding is also highly relevant to
regional climate modelling studies where lower resolution global atmospheric
models are often
used as the driving
model for high resolution
regional models.
Other activities include the downscaling of the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) long - range forecasts
using regional coupled
models, the participation in the preparation of the WMO
Climate Watch System (providing a
Climate Watch Advisory for South East Europe), and the preparation of the South East European
Climate Outlook Forum (SEECOF) and Mediterranean
Climate Outlook Forum (MEDCOF) activities.
Climate models are also used on regional scales in attempts to figure out way climate models don't perform well on regional
Climate models are also
used on
regional scales in attempts to figure out way
climate models don't perform well on regional
climate models don't perform well on
regional scales.
While
regional climate downscaling yields higher spatial resolution, the downscaling is strongly dependent on the lateral boundary conditions and the methods
used to constrain the
regional climate model variables to the coarser spatial scale information from the parent global
models.
The question that is addressed in my post is, with respect to multi-decadal
model simulations, are global and / or
regional climate models ready to be
used for skillful
regional projections by the impacts and policymaker communities?