Simulation of temperature and precipitation climatology for the Central Asia CORDEX domain using RegCM 4.0

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dc.authoridKurnaz, Mehmet Levent/0000-0003-3050-9847
dc.authoridOzturk, Tugba/0000-0001-8598-8596
dc.contributor.authorOzturk, Tugba
dc.contributor.authorAltinsoy, Hamza
dc.contributor.authorTurkes, Murat
dc.contributor.authorKurnaz, M. Levent
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T20:20:11Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T20:20:11Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThe Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) is a framework designed to coordinate international efforts on regional climate simulations. CORDEX domains encompass the majority of land areas of the world. Region 8 of the CORDEX basically covers Central Asia, with the corners of the domain at 54.76 degrees N, 11.05 degrees E; 56.48 degrees N, 139.13 degrees E; 18.34 degrees N, 42.41 degrees E; and 19.39 degrees N, 108.44 degrees E and with a horizontal resolution of 50 km. In the present study, the results of an experiment with the ICTP regional climate RegCM 4.0 model that was run for seasonal mean air temperature and precipitation total series are presented. The experiment consists of one simulation from 1989 to 2010 using ERA-Interim reanalysis data as the boundary condition, another simulation for the period 1970-2000 using the global climate model ECHAM5 A1B scenario data for forcing, and finally a simulation for the period 2070-2100 using the ECHAM5 A1B scenario projection data for forcing. Between these 3 simulations we determined the temperature and precipitation climatology obtained from RegCM 4.0 downscaling for Region 8 of the CORDEX framework. In spite of the diverse topography of the region, the temperature and precipitation climatology obtained by RegCM 4.0 from hindcast data captures the general characteristics of the climate of Central Asia. In winter, the warm temperature bias of the forcing data is slightly decreased by regional downscaling. The influences of the Indian monsoon system are well represented, as this region covers a large area towards the southern boundary of Region 8, even though the focus of this work was to capture the general characteristics of the whole region.
dc.description.sponsorshipBogazici University BAP [5130]
dc.description.sponsorshipWe thank everyone in the RegCM team of ICTP, especially Filippo Giorgi, Erika Coppola, Xunqiang Bi, Gulilat Tefera Diro, Nellie Elguindi, Laura Mariotti, Fabien Solmon and Graziano Giuliani, for helping us by providing forcing data and in installing and running the model. We give special thanks to Ivan Guttler for helping in parameterization of the regional climate model and the cloud cover correction. Finally, we thank Muhammed Zeynel Ozturk for his help in plotting the geographical map. This work has been supported by Bogazici University BAP under Project Number 5130.
dc.identifier.doi10.3354/cr01082
dc.identifier.endpage76
dc.identifier.issn0936-577X
dc.identifier.issn1616-1572
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84861596112
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage63
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3354/cr01082
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/21606
dc.identifier.volume52
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000302015300005
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-Research
dc.relation.ispartofClimate Research
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectClimate change and variability
dc.subjectRegional climate modeling
dc.subjectCentral Asia
dc.subjectCORDEX
dc.subjectTemperature and precipitation climatology
dc.titleSimulation of temperature and precipitation climatology for the Central Asia CORDEX domain using RegCM 4.0
dc.typeArticle

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