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  • 2 - Global Climate Models

  • Rao Kotamarthi, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University, Linda O. Mearns, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, Donald Wuebbles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Jennifer Jacobs, University of New Hampshire, Jennifer Jurado
  • Book:
    Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections
    Published online:
    05 February 2021
    Print publication:
    11 February 2021, pp 19-39

  • Summary

    Global models of the Earth’s climate system are the primary tool scientists use to understand the Earth’s climate system. They yield critical insights into the components of the earth’s climate system, including the atmosphere, land, oceans, and biosphere, the processes at work within and between them, and how natural factors and human activities affect climate at the regional to global scale. This chapter summarizes the evolution of climate modeling and describes current global climate models and how they are being used to study the changing climate.

  • 4 - Dynamical Downscaling

  • Rao Kotamarthi, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University, Linda O. Mearns, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, Donald Wuebbles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Jennifer Jacobs, University of New Hampshire, Jennifer Jurado
  • Book:
    Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections
    Published online:
    05 February 2021
    Print publication:
    11 February 2021, pp 64-81

  • Summary

    Dynamical downscaling uses high-resolution regional climate models (RCMs) to bias-correct and downscale global climate model output.This chapter discusses the models and methods used in dynamical downscaling. It provides an overview of the basic physics used in RCMs, and how this is similar to and differs from that used in global models. It also discusses the methods and metrics used to evaluate RCMs, and how projections from RCMs can be used to assess climate impacts at the regional scale