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- Title
Assessment of regional seasonal predictability using the PRECIS regional climate modeling system over South America.
- Authors
Alves, Lincoln M.; Marengo, José
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy and skill of the UK Met Office Hadley Center Regional Climate Model (HadRM3P) in describing the seasonal variability of the main climatological features over South America and adjacent oceans, in long-term simulations (30 years, 1961–1990). The analysis was performed using seasonal averages from observed and simulated precipitation, temperature, and lower- and upper-level circulation. Precipitation and temperature patterns as well as the main general circulation features, including details captured by the model at finer scales than those resolved by the global model, were simulated by the model. However, in the regional model, there are still systematic errors which might be related to the physics of the model (convective schemes, topography, and land-surface processes) and the lateral boundary conditions and possible biases inherited from the global model.
- Subjects
SOUTH America; UNITED Kingdom; PRECIS (Indexing system); METEOROLOGICAL precipitation; TEMPERATURE
- Publication
Theoretical & Applied Climatology, 2010, Vol 100, Issue 3-4, p337
- ISSN
0177-798X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00704-009-0165-2