Dynamical downscaling of regional climate: A review of methods and limitations

Z Xu, Y Han, Z Yang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2019 - Springer
The traditional dynamical downscaling (TDD) method employs continuous integration of
regional climate models (RCM) with the general circulation model (GCM) providing the initial …

Methodology of the constraint condition in dynamical downscaling for regional climate evaluation: A review

SA Adachi, H Tomita - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The dynamical downscaling method with a regional climate model (RCM) is widely used to
assess the spatially detailed information about regional climate. However, the RCM result is …

[HTML][HTML] An improved dynamical downscaling method with GCM bias corrections and its validation with 30 years of climate simulations

Z Xu, ZL Yang - Journal of Climate, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
An improved dynamical downscaling method (IDD) with general circulation model (GCM)
bias corrections is developed and assessed over North America. A set of regional climate …

Regional climate downscaling: What's the point?

RA Pielke Sr, RL Wilby - Eos, Transactions American …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamical and statistical downscaling of multidecadal global climate models provides finer
spatial resolution information for climate impact assessments [Wilby and Fowler, 2010] …

A review on regional dynamical downscaling in intraseasonal to seasonal simulation/prediction and major factors that affect downscaling ability

Y Xue, Z Janjic, J Dudhia, R Vasic, F De Sales - Atmospheric research, 2014 - Elsevier
Regional climate models (RCMs) have been developed and extensively applied for
dynamically downscaling coarse resolution information from different sources, such as …

Dynamical downscaling: Fundamental issues from an NWP point of view and recommendations

SY Hong, M Kanamitsu - Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 2014 - Springer
Dynamical downscaling has been recognized as a useful tool not only for the climate
community, but also for associated application communities such as the environmental and …

Statistical downscaling and dynamical downscaling of regional climate in China: Present climate evaluations and future climate projections

J Tang, X Niu, S Wang, H Gao… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Statistical downscaling and dynamical downscaling are two approaches to generate high‐
resolution regional climate models based on the large‐scale information from either …

A new dynamical downscaling approach with GCM bias corrections and spectral nudging

Z Xu, ZL Yang - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
To improve confidence in regional projections of future climate, a new dynamical
downscaling (NDD) approach with both general circulation model (GCM) bias corrections …

Dynamical downscaling: Assessment of model system dependent retained and added variability for two different regional climate models

B Rockel, CL Castro, RA Pielke Sr… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we compare the retained and added variability obtained using the regional
climate model CLM (Climate version of the Local Model of the German Weather Service) to …

Regional climate downscaling with prior statistical correction of the global climate forcing

A Colette, R Vautard, M Vrac - Geophysical Research Letters, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A novel climate downscaling methodology that attempts to correct climate simulation biases
is proposed. By combining an advanced statistical bias correction method with a dynamical …