TY - JOUR
T1 - Regional climate modeling for the developing world
T2 - The ICTP RegCM3 and RegCNET
AU - Pal, Jeremy S.
AU - Giorgi, Filippo
AU - Bi, Xunqiang
AU - Elguindi, Nellie
AU - Solmon, Fabien
AU - Gao, Xuejie
AU - Rauscher, Sara A.
AU - Francisco, Raquel
AU - Zakey, Ashraf
AU - Winter, Jonathan
AU - Ashfaq, Moetasim
AU - Syed, Faisal S.
AU - Bell, Jason L.
AU - Differbaugh, Noah S.
AU - Karmacharya, Jagadish
AU - Konari, Abourahamane
AU - Martinez, Daniel
AU - Da Rocha, Rosmeri P.
AU - Sloan, Lisa C.
AU - Steiner, Allison L.
PY - 2007/9
Y1 - 2007/9
N2 - Regional climate models are important research tools available to scientists around the world, including in economically developing nations (EDNs). The Earth Systems Physics (ESP) group of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) maintains and distributes a state-of-the-science regional climate model called the ICTP Regional Climate Model version 3 (RegCM3), which is currently being used by a large research community for a diverse range of climate-related studies. The RegCM3 is the central, but not only, tool of the ICTP-maintained Regional Climate Research Network (RegCNET) aimed at creating south-south and north-south scientific interactions on the topic of climate and associated impacts research and modeling. In this paper, RegCNET, RegCM3, and illustrative results from RegCM3 benchmark simulations applied over south Asia, Africa, and South America are presented. It is shown that RegCM3 performs reasonably well over these regions and is therefore useful for climate studies in EDNs.
AB - Regional climate models are important research tools available to scientists around the world, including in economically developing nations (EDNs). The Earth Systems Physics (ESP) group of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) maintains and distributes a state-of-the-science regional climate model called the ICTP Regional Climate Model version 3 (RegCM3), which is currently being used by a large research community for a diverse range of climate-related studies. The RegCM3 is the central, but not only, tool of the ICTP-maintained Regional Climate Research Network (RegCNET) aimed at creating south-south and north-south scientific interactions on the topic of climate and associated impacts research and modeling. In this paper, RegCNET, RegCM3, and illustrative results from RegCM3 benchmark simulations applied over south Asia, Africa, and South America are presented. It is shown that RegCM3 performs reasonably well over these regions and is therefore useful for climate studies in EDNs.
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U2 - 10.1175/BAMS-88-9-1395
DO - 10.1175/BAMS-88-9-1395
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34547667580
SN - 0003-0007
VL - 88
SP - 1395
EP - 1409
JO - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
JF - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
IS - 9
ER -
