https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50930-9_27

Li, Zhenhua; Li, Yanping; Yang, Daqing; Shrestha, Rajesh R. (2021) Regional Climate Modeling in the Northern Regions. Springer International Publishing, Arctic Hydrology, Permafrost and Ecosystems - 795 to 814, 978-3-030-50930-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50930-9_27

Regional climate models (RCMs) are indispensable tools for dynamically downscaling climate projections to regional scales. Compared to statistical downscaling, RCMs provide a tool to investigate how regional scale climate evolves without assuming stationarity by explicitly representing the physical processes resolved by the RCMs. Studies using RCMs have investigated the climate change’s impacts on precipitation, temperature, floods, permafrost, wildfire, etc., over the northern regions of North America. As the computing capacity increases, RCMs with grid spacing less than 5 km can directly resolve convection and eliminate the need to parameterize one important process in the generation of precipitation and improves the simulation of convective precipitation. As the need for regional climate dynamical downscaling increases, further improvements of RCMs and incorporation of other components of eco-climate system are needed.

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