Analysis of the NARCCAP climate projection ensemble of Precipitation and 2m Temperature (Invited)
Abstract
The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) is a project that aims at studying the uncertainty related to regional climate projections. It also supplies the scientific community with a considerable ensemble of climate simulations over a region covering most of North America at the regional scale. These simulations are produced from six Regional Climate Models (RCMs) using different sources of large scale information for recent and future climate. Results of an analysis of the Precipitation and 2m Temperature fields from the NARCCAP ensemble are presented. The analysis covers RCMs simulation using reanalysis and recent climate simulations produced by General Circulation Models (GCMs). We also present the different climate change projections, focusing on the similarity and differences between the projections produced by the different RCMs.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010AGUFMGC52B..03B
- Keywords:
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- 1637 GLOBAL CHANGE / Regional climate change;
- 3355 ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES / Regional modeling