An appraisal of downscaling methods used in climate change research

M Ekström, MR Grose… - … Reviews: Climate Change, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The term 'downscaling'refers to the process of translating information from global climate
model simulations to a finer spatial resolution. There are numerous methods by which this …

Evaluation of climate models

G Flato, J Marotzke, B Abiodun, P Braconnot… - Climate change 2013 …, 2014 - pure.mpg.de
Climate models have continued to be developed and improved since the AR4, and many
models have been extended into Earth System models by including the representation of …

Regional climate modeling on European scales: a joint standard evaluation of the EURO-CORDEX RCM ensemble

S Kotlarski, K Keuler, OB Christensen… - Geoscientific Model …, 2014 - gmd.copernicus.org
EURO-CORDEX is an international climate downscaling initiative that aims to provide high-
resolution climate scenarios for Europe. Here an evaluation of the ERA-Interim-driven EURO …

Future increases in extreme precipitation exceed observed scaling rates

J Bao, SC Sherwood, LV Alexander… - Nature Climate Change, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Models and physical reasoning predict that extreme precipitation will increase in a
warmer climate due to increased atmospheric humidity,,. Observational tests using …

Effectiveness of green and cool roofs in mitigating urban heat island effects during a heatwave event in the city of Melbourne in southeast Australia

HM Imran, J Kala, AWM Ng, S Muthukumaran - Journal of Cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study evaluates the effectiveness of green and cool roofs as potential Urban Heat
Island (UHI) mitigation strategies, and the impacts of these strategies on human thermal …

[HTML][HTML] Empirical values and assumptions in the convection schemes of numerical models

A Villalba-Pradas, FJ Tapiador - Geoscientific Model …, 2022 - gmd.copernicus.org
Convection influences climate and weather events over a wide range of spatial and
temporal scales. Therefore, accurate predictions of the time and location of convection and …

Climate change increases the potential for extreme wildfires

G Di Virgilio, JP Evans, SAP Blake… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) wildfires cause devastation in many regions globally. Given
that fire‐atmosphere coupling is associated with pyroCbs, future changes in coincident high …

Seasonal dependence of WRF model biases and sensitivity to PBL schemes over Europe

M García‐Díez, J Fernández, L Fita… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The seasonal dependence of Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model surface
temperature biases and sensitivity to planetary boundary layer (PBL) schemes are jointly …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of vegetated patches as Green Infrastructure in mitigating Urban Heat Island effects during a heatwave event in the city of Melbourne

HM Imran, J Kala, AWM Ng, S Muthukumaran - Weather and Climate …, 2019 - Elsevier
The city of Melbourne in southeast Australia experiences frequent heatwaves and their
frequency, intensity and duration are expected to increase in the future. In addition …

Design of a regional climate modelling projection ensemble experiment–NARCliM

JP Evans, F Ji, C Lee, P Smith… - Geoscientific Model …, 2014 - gmd.copernicus.org
Including the impacts of climate change in decision making and planning processes is a
challenge facing many regional governments including the New South Wales (NSW) and …