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- Title
REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD: The ICTP RegCM3 and RegCNET.
- Authors
Pal, Jeremy S.; Giorgi, Filippo; Xunqiang Bi; Elguindi, Nellie; Solmon, Fabian; Xuejie Gao; Rauscher, Sara A.; Francisco, Raquel; Zakey, Ashraf; Winter, Jonathan; Ashfaq, Moet Aasim; Syed, Faisal S.; Beu, Jason L.; Diffenbaugh, Noah S.; Karmacharya, Jagadish; Konare, Abourahamane; Martinez, Daniel; Da Rocha, Rosmeri P.; Sloan, Lisa C.; Steiner, Allison L.
- Abstract
The article discusses a climate modeling program taken up by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) for conducting climatic research in economically developing nations (EDNs). It points out the different reasons for climate change that affects people in EDNs. The climate models, both global and regional, are the primary tools that help in understanding many processes of the climate system. It is stated that the decreasing cost of computing devices has allowed scientists in EDNs to develop climate simulation models for weather forecasting and research. A detailed account of a regional climate model (RCM) developed by the ICTP is given. Finally the article provides information on the way these climate models function which is depicted by satellite photographs.
- Subjects
CLIMATE change research; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL observations; REMOTE-sensing images; WEATHER forecasting; SIMULATION methods &; models; AERIAL photographs; SCIENTISTS; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2007, Vol 88, Issue 9, p1395
- ISSN
0003-0007
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/BAMS-88-9-1395