How does a regional climate model modify the projected climate change signal of the driving GCM: A study over different CORDEX regions using REMO

Atmosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 214-236

  Teichmann, Claas ^a,b   Eggert, Bastian ^a   Elizalde, Alberto ^b   Haensler, Andreas ^a   Jacob, Daniela ^a,b   Kumar, Pankaj ^a,b   Moseley, Christopher ^a,b   Pfeifer, Susanne ^a   Rechid, Diana ^a,b   Remedio, Armelle Reca ^a,b   Ries, Hinnerk ^a   Petersen, Juliane ^a,b   Preuschmann, Swantje ^a   Raub, Thomas ^a,b   Saeed, Fahad ^a   Sieck, Kevin ^a,b   Weber, Torsten ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CORDEX; Dynamical downscaling; K ppen trewartha climate classification; MPI ESM; RCP; Regional climate simulations; REMO

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); EXPERIMENTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CORDEX; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; MPI-ESM; RCP; REGIONAL CLIMATE SIMULATION; REMO;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

AFRICA; AMAZON BASIN; EUROPE; WEST ASIA;

EID: 84885123950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos4020214     Document Type: Article

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