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The Ongoing Need for High-Resolution Regional Climate Models: Process Understanding and Stakeholder Information

William J. Gutowski, Paul Ullrich, Alex Hall, L. Ruby Leung, Travis O’Brien, Christina M. Patricola, Raymond W. Arritt, Melissa Bukovsky, Katherine Calvin, Zhe Feng, Andrew D. Jones, Gabriel J. Kooperman, Erwan Monier, Michael S. Pritchard, S. C. Pryor, Yun Qian, Alan M. Rhoades, Andrew Roberts, Kôichi Sakaguchi, Nathan M. Urban, Colin M. Zarzycki

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2020

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ABSTRACT Regional climate modeling addresses our need to understand and simulate climatic processes and phenomena unresolved in global models. This paper highlights examples of current approaches to and innovative uses of regional climate modeling that deepen understanding of the climate system. High-resolution models are generally more skillful in simulating extremes, such as heavy precipitation, strong winds, and severe storms. In addition, research has shown that fine-scale features such as mountains, coastlines, lakes, irrigation, land use, and urban heat islands can substantially influence a region’s climate and its response to changing forcings. Regional climate simulations explicitly simulating convection are now being performed, providing an opportunity to illuminate new physical b

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1175/bams-d-19-0113.1
Catalogue ID
SNmokylbml-a2k6cg
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