Information - CL015 Generality of Climate Models and their Components
Event Information
Climate models and their component parameterizations do not perform equally well for all regions of the globe or for all climate regimes. These disparities in model performance will become increasingly important as demand grows for climate-change information on regional scales. This session solicits contributions that explore the generality of climate models and their components across varying locations and across varying scales of space and time. Both global and regional climate models as well as reanalyses and data assimilation systems that use such models are relevant to this session. Examples of appropriate contributions include but are not limited to comparisons of model performance in different regions of the globe; independent verification of reanalyses for different regions or climate regimes; conflicts between the need for model "tuning" versus the conceptual ideal of generality; performance of parameterizations across a range of spatial scales; and relative performance of physical parameterizations when applied to differing climate regimes. Contributions that compare model performance across several GEWEX Continental Scale Experiment (CSE) regions are especially encouraged.
Preliminary List of Solicited Speakers
Dr. Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research (USA), "Understanding and evaluating the coupling of parameterized processes on the daily timescale"
Dr. Hans-Joerg Isemer, GKSS Forschungszentrum (Germany), "CEOP (Coordinated Enhanced Observation Period) reference site data: a unique data set for model validation"
Dr. Richard Jones, Hadley Centre (UK), "Configuring regional climate models to perform well globally"
Dr. David Williamson, National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA), "Comparison of CAM3 parameterization errors in different regions and for different regimes"
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