A regional climate model for northern Europe: Model description and results from the downscaling of two GCM control simulations

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 17, Issue 5-6, 2001, Pages 339-359

  Rummukainen, M ^a   Raisanen J ^a   Bringfelt, B ^a   Ullerstig, A ^a   Omstedt, A ^a,b   Willen U ^a   Hansson, U ^a   Jones, C ^a  

^a SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EUROPE;

EID: 0034820203     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820000109     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. On the scale problem in hydrological modelling
2. Validation of present-day regional climate simulations over Europe: LAM simulations with observed boundary conditions
3. Very high-resolution regional climate simulations over Scandinavia - Present climate
4. Empirical equations for some hydraulic properties
5. A lateral boundary formulation for multi-level prediction models
6. A regional climate model for the Western United States
7. A parallel version of the HIRLAM forecast model: Strategy and results
8. Thickness of lake ice - A statistical analysis of measurements made by SMHI
9. Freezing and melting of ice in Swedish lakes
10. A sensitivity analysis of a temperature model of a lake examining components of the heat balance
11. Use of a modified Richardson for parameterizing the effect of shallow convection
12. ERA Description
13. On the climatological skill of a regional model over complex terrain
14. Approaches to the simulation of regional climate change: A review
15. Introduction to special section: Regional climate modeling revisited
16. Development of a second-generation regional climate model (RegCM2). Part I: Boundary-layer and radiative transfer processes
17. Development of a second-generation regional climate model (RegCM2). Part II: Convective processes and assimilation of lateral boundary conditions
18. Regional climate change scenarios over the United States produced with a nested regional climate model
19. Coupling of a high-resolution atmospheric model and an ocean model for the Baltic sea
20. A dynamic thermodynamic sea ice model
21. Diagnostics of the global atmospheric circulation based on ECMWF analyses 1979-1989
22. Climate change 1995
23. Sensitivity studies with the regional climate model REMO
24. The second Hadley Centre coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM: Model description, spinup and validation
25. Simulation of climate change over Europe using a nested regional-climate model. I: Assessment of control climate, including sensitivity to location of lateral boundaries
26. Simulation of climate change over Europe using a nested regional-climate model. II: Comparison of driving and regional model responses to a doubling of carbon dioxide
27. On the formation and intensification of tropical cyclone through latent heat release by cumulus convection
28. Further studies of the parametrization of the influence of cumulus convection on large-scale flow
29. Estimation of surface albedo from NOAA AVHRR data in high latitudes
30. Climate and climate change in Western Canada as simulated by the Canadian regional climate model
31. World Ocean Atlas 1994
32. Development and test of the distributed HBV-96 hydrological model
33. Parametrization of lake thermodynamics in a high resolution weather forecasting model
34. A parametric model of vertical eddy fluxes in the atmosphere
35. Validation of present-day regional climate simulations over Europe: Nested LAM and variable resolution global model simulations with observed or mixed layer ocean boundary conditions
36. Validation and analysis of regional present-day climate and climate change simulations over Europe
37. Simulation of the effects of surface fluxes of heat and moisture in a mesoscale numerical model. I. Soil layer
38. Regional climate modeling
39. Climate change simulations of Tasmanian precipitation using multiple nesting
40. RCO - Rosby centre regional ocean climate model: Model description (version 1.0) and first results from the hindcast period 1992/93
41. Sources of systematic errors in the climatology of a regional climate model over Europe
42. A simple parametrization of land surface processes for meteorological models
43. Simulation of the Atlantic circulation with a coupled sea ice-mixed layer-isopycnal general circulation model. 1: Model description
44. Forecasting ice on lakes, estuaries and shelf seas
45. Modeling the seasonal, interannual, and long-term variations of salinity and temperature in the Baltic proper
46. Response of Baltic Sea ice to seasonal, interannual forcing and climate change
47. Closing the water and heat cycles of the Baltic sea
48. ENSO variability and atmospheric response in a global coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM
49. Transient climate change simulations with a coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM including the tropospheric sulfur cycle
50. Methods for statistical downscaling of GCM simulations
51. RCA - Rossby centre regional atmospheric climate model: Model description and results from the first multi-year simulation
52. A regional climate simulation stressing the significance of the Baltic sea ice and lake ice in the nordic climate (change)
53. 2-induced climate change in Northern Europe: Comparison of 12 CMIP2 experiments
54. Simulation of present-day climate in Northern Europe in the HadCM2 OAGCM
55. Modelling the thermal region of lake during the winter season
56. The performance of long-term integrations of a limited area model with the spectral boundary coupling method
57. HIRLAM-2 radiation scheme: Documentation and tests
58. Fast radiation parametrization schemes for mesoscale and short-range forecast models
59. An energy and angular momentum conserving vertical finite-difference scheme and hybrid vertical coordinates
60. A model for the vertical circulation of the Baltic deep water
61. Inclusion of ice phase of hydrometeors in cloud parametrization for mesoscale and large-scale models
62. Condensation and cloud parametrization studies with a mesoscale numerical weather prediction model
63. Oceanographical measurements along the Swedish coast 1970-1997
64. The representation of soil moisture freezing and its impact on the stable boundary layer