2-5: Regional Climate Models; Clouds and Vegetation Effects

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Sources of Model Error in a Regional Climate Model
  
  
• More Flooding in a Drier Climate
  
  

Websites

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• Agriculture Cools the US
  
  
• Project to Intercompare Regional Climate Simulations.
  
  

Additional References

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• Kerr, R. A., 2005: Changes in the sun may sway the tropical monsoon. Science, 308, 787.
  
  
• Tebaldi, C., R.L. Smith, D. Nychka, and L.O Mearns, 2005: Quantifying uncertainty in projections of regional climate change: A Bayesian approach to the analysis of mulimodel ensembles. J. Climate, 18, 1524-1540.
  
  
• Zhang, Yu; W. Chen, S.L. Smith, D.W. Riseborough, J. Cihlar, 2005: Soil temperature in Canada during the twentieth century: Complex responses to atmospheric climate change. J. Geophys. Res., 110, No. D3, D03112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004JD004910.
  
  
• Cooley, H.S.; W.J. Riley, M.S. Torn, Y. He, 2005: Impact of agricultural practice on regional climate in a coupled land surface mesoscale model. J. Geophys. Res., 110, No. D3, D03113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004JD005160.
  
  
• Kerr, R.A., 2004: A few good climate shifters. Science, 306, 599-601.
  
  
• Sellers P.J., R. E. Dickinson, D. A. Randall, A. K. Betts, F. G.Hall, J. A. Berry, G. J. Collatz, A. S. Denning, H. A. Mooney, C. A. Nobre, N. Sato, C. B. Field and A. Henderson-Sellers, 1997: Modeling the Exchanges of Energy, Water and Carbon between Continents and the Atmosphere. Science, 275, 502-509.
  
  
• Cash, J. H. C., and C. A. Nobre, 1997: Some results from ABRACOS. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 823-828.
  
  
• Pan, Z., E. S. Takle, M. Segal, and R. Turner, 1996: Influences of Model Parameterization Schemes on the Response of Rainfall in the Central US to Soil Moisture. Mon. Wea. Rev., 124, 1786-1802.
  
  
• Pan, Zaitao, 1996: On Surface Versus Atmospheric Forcing in Regional Climate Simulations. Ph. D. Dissertation. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. 145 pp.
  
  
• Houghton, J. T., L. G. Meira Filho, B. A. Callander N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell, 1996: Climate Change 1995. The Science of Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, 306-349.
  
  
• Dickinson, R. E., 1995: Walter Orr Robers Lecuture - Land surface processes and climate modeling. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 1445-1448.
  
  
• Houghton, J. T., G. J. Jenkins, and J. J. Ephraums, 1990: Climate Change, The IPCC Scientific Assessment. Cambridge University Press. p. 155-158.