Perspectives of regional paleoclimate modeling
Regional climate modeling bridges the gap between the coarse resolution of current global climate models and theregional-to-local scales, where the impacts of climate change are of primary interest. Here, we present a review of the added value of the regional climate modeling approach within the sco...
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ftdatacite:10.7892/boris.129937 2023-05-15T16:40:59+02:00 Perspectives of regional paleoclimate modeling Ludwig, Patrick Gómez-Navarro, Juan J. Pinto, Joaquim G. Raible, Christoph C. Wagner, Sebastian Zorita, Eduardo 2019 application/pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.7892/boris.129937 https://boris.unibe.ch/129937/ en eng New York Academy of Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 530 Physics Text article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.7892/boris.129937 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Regional climate modeling bridges the gap between the coarse resolution of current global climate models and theregional-to-local scales, where the impacts of climate change are of primary interest. Here, we present a review of the added value of the regional climate modeling approach within the scope of paleoclimate research and discuss the current major challenges and perspectives. Two time periods serve as an example: the Holocene, including the Last Millennium, and the Last Glacial Maximum. Reviewing the existing literature reveals the benefits of regional paleoclimate modeling, particularly over areas with complex terrain. However, this depends largely on the variable ofinterest, as the added value of regional modeling arises from a more realistic representation of physical processes andclimate feedbacks compared to global climate models, and this affects different climate variables in various ways. In particular, hydrological processes have been shown to be better represented in regional models, and they can deliver more realistic meteorological data to drive ice sheet and glacier modeling. Thus, regional climate models provide a clear benefit to answer fundamental paleoclimate research questions and may be key to advance a meaningful joint interpretation of climate model and proxy data. Text Ice Sheet DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Regional climate modeling bridges the gap between the coarse resolution of current global climate models and theregional-to-local scales, where the impacts of climate change are of primary interest. Here, we present a review of the added value of the regional climate modeling approach within the scope of paleoclimate research and discuss the current major challenges and perspectives. Two time periods serve as an example: the Holocene, including the Last Millennium, and the Last Glacial Maximum. Reviewing the existing literature reveals the benefits of regional paleoclimate modeling, particularly over areas with complex terrain. However, this depends largely on the variable ofinterest, as the added value of regional modeling arises from a more realistic representation of physical processes andclimate feedbacks compared to global climate models, and this affects different climate variables in various ways. In particular, hydrological processes have been shown to be better represented in regional models, and they can deliver more realistic meteorological data to drive ice sheet and glacier modeling. Thus, regional climate models provide a clear benefit to answer fundamental paleoclimate research questions and may be key to advance a meaningful joint interpretation of climate model and proxy data. |
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