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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
Regional climate modeling for the developing world: The ICTP RegCM3 and RegCNET
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 88, No. 9, Year 2007
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Description
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. © 2007 American Meteorological Society.
Authors & Co-Authors
Pal, Jeremy S.
Italy, Trieste
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
United States, Los Angeles
Loyola Marymount University
Giorgi, Filippo
Italy, Trieste
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Bi, Xungqiang
Italy, Trieste
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Elguindi, Nellie
Italy, Trieste
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Solmon, Fabien
Italy, Trieste
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Gao, Xue Jie
Italy, Trieste
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
China, Beijing
Beijing Climate Centre
Rauscher, Sara A.
Italy, Trieste
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Francisco, Raquel
China, Beijing
Beijing Climate Centre
Zakey, Ashraf Saber
Philippines, Quezon City
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
Winter, Jonathan M.
Egypt, Cairo
Egyptian Meteorological Authority
Ashfaq, Moetasim
Pakistan
Ministry of Defence, Pakistan
United States, West Lafayette
Purdue Climate Change Research Center
Syed, Faisal S.
United States, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
Bell, Jason L.
United States, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
Differbaugh, Noah S.
United States, West Lafayette
Purdue Climate Change Research Center
Karmacharya, Jagadish
Unknown Affiliation
Konari, Abourahamane
Cote D'ivoire, Abidjan
Université de Cocody-abidjan
Martínez-Castro, Daniel
Cuba, Havana
Instituto de Meteorologia de la Republica de Cuba
da Rocha, R. P.
Brazil, Sao Paulo
Universidade de São Paulo
Sloan, L. C.
United States, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
Steiner, Allison L.
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Statistics
Citations: 943
Authors: 20
Affiliations: 12
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1175/BAMS-88-9-1395
ISSN:
00030007