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North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program. L. O. Mearns and the NARCCAP Team March 20, 2006. The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP). Initiated in FY05, it is an international program that will serve - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program
L. O. Mearns and
the NARCCAP Team
March 20, 2006
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The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP)
•Exploration of multiple uncertainties in regional model and global climate model regional projections.
•Development of multiple high resolution regionalclimate scenarios for use in impacts assessments.
•Further evaluation of regional model performance over North America.
•Exploration of some remaining uncertainties in regional climate modeling(e.g., importance of compatibility of physics in nesting and nested models).
•Program has been funded by NOAA-OGP, NSF, DOE – 3-year program
Initiated in FY05, it is an international program that will servethe climate scenario needs of the United States, Canada, and northern Mexico. Climate scenarios phase starts February 2007.
www.narccap.ucar.edu
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NARCCAP - ParticipantsLinda O. Mearns, Executive Director, National Center
for Atmospheric Research Ray Arritt, Iowa State, Dave Bader, LLNL, Erasmo
Buono, Hadley Centre, Daniel Caya, OURANOS, Phil Duffy, LLNL, Filippo Giorgi, Abdus Salam ICTP,
William Gutowski, Iowa State, Isaac Held, GFDL, Richard Jones, Hadley Centre, Rene Laprise, UQAM,
Ruby Leung, PNNL, Don Middleton, NCAR, Ana Nunes, Scripps, Doug Nychka, NCAR, Jeremy Pal, ICTP, John Roads, Scripps, Steve Sain, CU Denver,
Lisa Sloan, UC Santa Cruz, Ron Stouffer, GFDL, Gene Takle, Iowa State, Phil Rasch, NCAR, Tom
Wigley, NCAR
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Regional Modeling Strategy
Nested regional modeling technique • Global model provides:
– initial conditions – soil moisture, sea surface temperatures, sea ice
– lateral meteorological conditions (temperature, pressure, humidity) every 6-8 hours.
– Large scale response to forcing (100s kms)
Regional model provides finer scale response (10s kms)
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Physical Contexts for Regional Modeling
• Regions with small irregular land masses (e.g., the Caribbean)
• Complex topography (mountains)• Complex coastlines (e.g., Italy)• Heterogeneous landscapes
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NARCCAP Domain
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A2 Emissions Scenario
GFDL CCSMHADCM3link to European
Prudence
CGCM3
1960-1990 current 2040-2070 futureProvide boundary conditions
MM5Iowa State/PNNL
RegCM3UC Santa CruzICTP
CRCMQuebec,Ouranos
HADRM3Hadley Centre
RSMScripps
WRFNCAR/PNNL
NARCCAP PLAN
CAM3Time slice
50km
GFDLTime slice
50 km
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Organization of Program• Phase I: 25-year simulations using NCEP boundary
conditions.
• Phase IIa: RCM runs (50 km res.) nested in AOGCMs (current and future)
• Phase IIb: Time-slice experiments at 50 km res. (GFDL and NCAR CAM3). For comparison with RCM runs.
• Opportunity for double nesting (over specific regions) to include participation of other RCM groups (e.g., for NOAA OGP RISAs, CEC, New York Climate and Health Project).
• Scenario formation and provision to impacts community led by NCAR.
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GCM-RCM Matrix
GFDL CGCM3 HADCM3 CCSM
MM5 X X1
RegCM3 X X
CRCM X1 X
PRECIS X X X1 X
RSM X X1
WRF X X X1
CAM3 X
GFDL/AM2. X
1 = chosen first GCM
N = necessary for factorial design
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NARCCAP Project Timeline
1/06 12/07 12/0812/06
Start Current Climate 1
6/06
End Phase 1
9/06
9/06
AOGCM Boundaries available
End Future climate 1
6/07
End Current 1
Current and Future 2 Project Start
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USERS
• Illinois Water Survey – Ken Kunkel - DS (WRF and MM5)
• CEC - Guido Franco - DS (N. Miller)• Climate Impacts Group, NASA – Cynthia Rosenzweig –
DS – MM5 • Barry Lynn – Columbia U. – DS • U. North Carolina – Larry Band – impacts (hydrology)• CLIMAS - Greg Garffin – output (impacts) • Climate Impacts Group, UW – Ed Miles – impacts,
climate analysis, and DS • Western Water Assessment – Brad Udall – impacts
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