High-Resolution Regional Climate Modelling/Dynamical Downscaling
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 June 2022) | Viewed by 647
Special Issue Editors
Interests: regional climate modelling; climatology and climate change; numerical weather forecasting/nowcasting; urban climates; climate impacts and adaptation; water resources; food security; climate risk assessments
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Regional climate modelling (dynamical downscaling) remains an important methodology to examine regional climate changes at higher resolutions given the inadequacy in the application of global model data for impact studies. In the recent years, high-resolution regional climate simulations have matured to resolutions of about 5–10 km. The need for higher resolutions also depends on the region, physical terrain, and climate influences. Urban-scale simulations have also garnered interest and are being attempted by several researchers under CPM scales.
Nevertheless, the scientific approaches on urban scales or smaller regional/sub-regional scales need more experiments and uncertainty quantifications, given that observations are not always available at such high resolutions to compare models effectively. Given challenges in HPC computations of long-term integrations, newer models such as MPAS (variable resolution), and the increasing resolutions of global-scale models, this Special Issue on High-Resolution Regional Climate Modelling invites papers and articles that answer some of the following questions:
- How can dynamical downscaling be improved in the years to come?
- What is the future of dynamical downscaling, and do we need more models in the research community?
- How effective are CPM-scale simulations at urban and sub-regional scales?
- What is the ‘added value’ in multi-RCM simulations, especially when examining climate projections?
Papers are generally invited on any aspect of dynamical downscaling that discuss high-resolution (10 km and above) simulations on urban or regional scales. The topics can be on model evaluations, sensitivities, parameterizations and their behavior at different resolutions, or climate projections and their quantifications. Multi-RCM comparisons, GCM forcing biases, and examinations on observational uncertainties against model simulations are also welcome.
Dr. Srivatsan V. Raghavan
Dr. Ngoc Son Nguyen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- RCM, dynamical downscaling
- high-resolution simulations
- uncertainties
- multi-model ensemble
- future climate projections
