NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Regional pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Regional

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Model simulations of global climate change are seen as an essential component of any program aimed at understanding human impact on the global environment. A major weakness of current general circulation models (GCMs), however, is their inability to predict reliably the regional consequences of a global scale change, and it is these regional scale predictions that are necessary for studies of human/environmental response. This research is directed toward the development of a methodology for the validation of the synoptic scale climatology of GCMs. This is developed with regard to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) GCM Model 2, with the specific objective of using the synoptic circulation form a doubles CO2 simulation to estimate regional climate change over North America, south of Hudson Bay. This progress report is specifically concerned with validating the synoptic climatology of the GISS GCM, and developing the transfer function to derive grid-point temperatures from the synoptic circulation.

Principal Components Analysis is used to characterize the primary modes of the spatial and temporal variability in the observed and simulated climate, and the model validation is based on correlations between component loadings, and power spectral analysis of the component scores. The results show that the high resolution GISS model does an excellent job of simulating the synoptic circulation over the U.S., and that grid-point temperatures can be predicted with reasonable accuracy from the circulation patterns

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 3/1/1990
• Year: 1990
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATOLOGY, HIGH RESOLUTION, SIMULATION, CARBON DIOXIDE, COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS, NORTH AMERICA, SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION, SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION, TRANSFER FUNCTIONS, Crane, Robert G., Hewitson, Bruce

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