State-of-Art in Regional Climate Models

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue intends to collect the ongoing studies involving the development and application of regional climate models supporting the analysis of climate change at the local level, and development of impact, adaptation and risk studies at different scales. This issue aims to collect the enormous advances made in the context of regional climate models in recent years. Their increasing use in multiple fields of applications is forcing the scientific community working with regional climate models to improve their performance more and more, for example through the implementation of increasingly complex and realistic physical parameterizations and numerical schemes or techniques, such as two-way nesting, and many others. Studies are being developed for the realization of coupling of atmospheric models with soil and hydrology models and/or oceanic models, in order to develop detailed and realistic representation of the entire Earth system. In addition, in recent years, interests have also increased in demonstrating the added value of regional convection permitting climate models, which have characteristics making them even more interesting for impact analysis, but that still require extensive validation using adequate observational datasets.

Moreover, very high resolutions allows improvements also in representation of some large-scale features due to an adequate representation of small-scale processes. Specifically, the benefits of kilometer-scale modeling has been proven in a better representation of diurnal cycles, hourly precipitation intensities, local–regional circulations, urban areas, seasonal average precipitation, convective downdrafts and the representation of cold pools.

Dr. Bo Huang
Dr. Huidong Li
Dr. Jimy Dudhia
Guest Editors

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