A review on regional convection‐permitting climate modeling: Demonstrations, prospects, and challenges
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research · University of Graz · +15 more institutions
Abstract
Regional climate modeling using convection-permitting models (CPMs; horizontal grid spacing 10 km). CPMs no longer rely on convection parameterization schemes, which had been identified as a major source of errors and uncertainties in LSMs. Moreover, CPMs allow for a more accurate representation of surface and orography fields. The drawback of CPMs is the high demand on computational resources. For this reason, first CPM climate simulations only appeared a decade ago. In this study, we aim to provide a common basis for CPM climate simulations by giving a holistic review of the topic. The most important components in CPMs such as physical parameterizations and dynamical formulations are discussed critically. An…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 56.50
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- 100%
- References
- 391
Authors
15- AFAndreas F. PreinCorresponding
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, University of Graz
- WLWolfgang Langhans
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- GFGiorgia Fosser
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Météo-France
- AFAndrew Ferrone
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
- NBNikolina Ban
ETH Zurich
Topics & keywords
- Climate model
- Snowpack
- Grid
- Meteorology
- Orography
- Climate change
- Storm
- Scale (ratio)
- Climate action