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 …

Linking climate c hange modelling to impacts studies

HJ Fowler, S Blenkinsop, C Tebaldi - 2007 - taccire.sua.ac.tz
There is now a large published literature on the strengths and weaknesses of downscaling
methods for different climatic variables, in different regions and seasons. However, little …

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 …

The WCRP CMIP3 multimodel dataset: A new era in climate change research

GA Meehl, C Covey, T Delworth, M Latif… - Bulletin of the …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
A coordinated set of global coupled climate model [atmosphere–ocean general circulation
model (AOGCM)] experiments for twentieth-and twenty-first-century climate, as well as …

State‐of‐the‐art with regional climate models

M Rummukainen - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Regional climate models are used by a large number of groups, for more or less all regions
of the world. Regional climate models are complementary to global climate models. A typical …

Recent rapid regional climate warming on the Antarctic Peninsula

DG Vaughan, GJ Marshall, WM Connolley… - Climatic change, 2003 - Springer
Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that mean
global warming was 0.6±0.2° C during the 20th century and cited anthropogenic increases …

Evidence and implications of recent climate change in northern Alaska and other arctic regions

LD Hinzman, ND Bettez, WR Bolton, FS Chapin… - Climatic change, 2005 - Springer
The Arctic climate is changing. Permafrost is warming, hydrological processes are changing
and biological and social systems are also evolving in response to these changing …

Added value of regional climate modeling over areas characterized by complex terrain—Precipitation over the Alps

C Torma, F Giorgi, E Coppola - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We present an analysis of the added value (AV) of downscaling via regional climate model
(RCM) nesting with respect to the driving global climate models (GCMs). We analyze …

[HTML][HTML] Calculation of average, uncertainty range, and reliability of regional climate changes from AOGCM simulations via the “reliability ensemble averaging”(REA) …

F Giorgi, LO Mearns - Journal of climate, 2002 - journals.ametsoc.org
Calculation of Average, Uncertainty Range, and Reliability of Regional Climate Changes
from AOGCM Simulations via the “Reliability Ensemble Averaging” (REA) Method in …

Temperature and precipitation development at Svalbard 1900–2100

EJ Førland, R Benestad, I Hanssen-Bauer… - Advances in …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Substantial variations in temperature and precipitation have been observed since the first
permanent weather station was established in the Svalbard region in 1911. Temperature …