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27. Regional Climate Modeling in the Northern Regions

Authors : Zhenhua Li, Yanping Li, Daqing Yang, Rajesh R. Shrestha

Published in: Arctic Hydrology, Permafrost and Ecosystems

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Regional climate models (RCMs) are indispensable tools for dynamically downscaling climate projections to regional scales. Compared to statistical downscaling, RCMs provide a tool to investigate how regional scale climate evolves without assuming stationarity by explicitly representing the physical processes resolved by the RCMs. Studies using RCMs have investigated the climate change’s impacts on precipitation, temperature, floods, permafrost, wildfire, etc., over the northern regions of North America. As the computing capacity increases, RCMs with grid spacing less than 5 km can directly resolve convection and eliminate the need to parameterize one important process in the generation of precipitation and improves the simulation of convective precipitation. As the need for regional climate dynamical downscaling increases, further improvements of RCMs and incorporation of other components of eco-climate system are needed.

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Title: Regional Climate Modeling in the Northern Regions
Authors: Zhenhua Li
Yanping Li
Daqing Yang
Rajesh R. Shrestha
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Arctic Hydrology, Permafrost and Ecosystems
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-50928-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-50930-9

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50930-9_27

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