List of regional climate model simulations of duration longer than 3 months
nested within a GCM climate change simulation; also including oceanic RCMs
(O-RCM) and variable resolution GCMs (var.res.GCM).
 |
| References |
Grid size |
Duration |
Region |
|
| a) Individual January/July 2xCO2 simulations |
| Giorgi et al. (1992) |
70 km |
5x1 month |
Europe |
| McGregor and Walsh (1994) |
60 km |
10x1 month |
Tasmania |
| Rotach et al. (1997) |
20 km |
5x1 month |
Europe (Alps) |
| b) Seasonally-varying 2xCO2 time-slice
simulations |
| Giorgi et al. (1994) |
60 km |
3.5 years |
USA |
| Hirakuchi and Giorgi (1995) |
50 km |
5 years |
East Asia |
| McGregor et al. (1995) |
125 km |
10 years |
Australasia |
| Giorgi et al. (1997) |
50 km |
3 years |
Europe |
| Jones et al. (1997) |
50 km |
10 years |
Europe |
| Dèquè et al. (1998) |
About 60 km |
10 years |
Europe (var.res.GCM) |
| Giorgi et al. (1998) |
50 km |
5 years |
USA |
| Joubert et al. (1998) |
125 km |
10 years |
Southern Africa |
| Laprise et al. (1998) |
45 km |
5 years |
West Canada |
| Machenhauer et al. (1998) |
19 to 70 km |
5 to 30 years |
Europe |
| McGregor et al. (1998) |
44 km |
10 years |
South-east Asia |
| Renwick et al. (1998) |
50 km |
10 years |
New Zealand |
| Kauker (1998) |
15 km |
5 years |
North Sea (O-RCM) |
| Räisänen et al. (1999) |
44 km |
10 years |
Europe |
| Hassel and Jones (1999) |
50 km |
20 years |
Indian monsoon |
| Gallardo et al. (1999) |
50 km |
10 years |
Iberian Peninsula |
| Haugen et al. (1999) |
55 km |
20 years |
North-west Europe |
| Leung and Ghan (1999b) |
90 km |
8 years |
North-west USA |
| Pan et al. (2000) |
55 km |
2x10 years |
USA |
| Kato et al. (2001) |
50 km |
10 years |
East Asia |
| Gao et al. (2000) |
60 km |
5 year |
China |
| c) Seasonally-varying fully transient CO2
simulations |
| McGregor et al. (1999) |
125 km |
140 years |
Australasia |
| McGregor et al. (1999) |
60 km |
140 years |
South-east Australia |
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