Convection‐permitting modeling with regional climate models: Latest developments and next steps

P Lucas‐Picher, D Argüeso, E Brisson… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Approximately 10 years ago, convection‐permitting regional climate models (CPRCMs)
emerged as a promising computationally affordable tool to produce fine resolution (1–4 km) …

Climate change and rainfall intensity–duration–frequency curves: Overview of science and guidelines for adaptation

JL Martel, FP Brissette, P Lucas-Picher… - Journal of Hydrologic …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
One of the most important impacts of a future warmer climate is the projected increase in the
frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events. This increasing trend in extreme rainfall is …

Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

D Jacob, C Teichmann, S Sobolowski… - Regional environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The European CORDEX (EURO-CORDEX) initiative is a large voluntary effort that
seeks to advance regional climate and Earth system science in Europe. As part of the World …

The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution part 2: historical and future simulations of precipitation

E Pichelli, E Coppola, S Sobolowski, N Ban, F Giorgi… - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
This paper presents the first multi-model ensemble of 10-year,“convection-permitting”
kilometer-scale regional climate model (RCM) scenario simulations downscaled from …

The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, part I: evaluation of precipitation

N Ban, C Caillaud, E Coppola, E Pichelli… - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
Here we present the first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-
scale horizontal grid spacing over a decade long period. A total of 23 simulations run with a …

Challenges and outlook for convection-permitting climate modelling

EJ Kendon, AF Prein, CA Senior… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate projections at very high resolution (kilometre-scale grid spacing) are becoming
affordable. These 'convection-permitting'models (CPMs), commonly used for weather …

Seasonality, intensity, and duration of rainfall extremes change in a warmer climate

Y Moustakis, SM Papalexiou, CJ Onof… - Earth's Future, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation extremes are expected to intensify under climate change with consequent
impacts in flooding and ecosystem functioning. Here we use station data and high …

Kilometer-scale climate models: Prospects and challenges

C Schär, O Fuhrer, A Arteaga, N Ban… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Currently major efforts are underway toward refining the horizontal resolution (or grid
spacing) of climate models to about 1 km, using both global and regional climate models …

Mapping Europe into local climate zones

M Demuzere, B Bechtel, A Middel, G Mills - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Cities are major drivers of environmental change at all scales and are especially at risk from
the ensuing effects, which include poor air quality, flooding and heat waves. Typically, these …

The first Met Office Unified Model–JULES regional atmosphere and land configuration, RAL1

M Bush, T Allen, C Bain, I Boutle… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
In this paper we define the first Regional Atmosphere and Land (RAL) science configuration
for kilometre-scale modelling using the Unified Model (UM) as the basis for the atmosphere …