The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program: Overview of Phase I Results

Journal Article · Thu Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2012 · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93(9):1337-1362

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00223.1· OSTI ID:1052934

Mearns, L O; Arritt, R; Biner, S; Bukovsky, Melissa; McGinnis, Seth; Sain, Steve; Caya, Daniel; Correia, Jr, James; Flory, Dave; Gutowski, William; Takle, Gene; Jones, Richard; Leung, Lai-Yung R; Moufouma-Okia, Wilfran; McDaniel, Larry; Nunes, A; Qian, Yun; Roads, J; Sloan, Lisa; Snyder, Mark A

The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program is an international effort designed to systematically investigate the uncertainties in regional scale projections of future climate and produce high resolution climate change scenarios using multiple regional climate models (RCMs) nested within atmosphere ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) forced with the A2 SRES scenario, with a common domain covering the conterminous US, northern Mexico, and most of Canada. The program also includes an evaluation component (Phase I) wherein the participating RCMs are nested within 25 years of NCEP/DOE global reanalysis II. The grid spacing of the RCM simulations is 50 km.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1052934
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-76549; KP1703010
• Journal Information: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93(9):1337-1362, Journal Name: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93(9):1337-1362
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English