Simulation of temperature and precipitation climatology for the Central Asia CORDEX domain using RegCM 4.0
Abstract
Climate tends to change on all temporal and spatial scales beyond that of individual weather events due to various factors and mechanisms including natural changes and variability in atmospheric and surface feedbacks and forcing factors associated with internal and/or external interactions. However, today, climate change is a much more complex issue than it was before the industrial revolution, due mainly to human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, in dustrial processes, mining activities, land-use changes and deforestation. Thus, it is of great importance to understand and project the nature and magnitude of the changes in the climate. The impacts of climate change on weather events and climate conditions are generally obtained by running general circulation models (GCMs) based on various scenario, and by statistical and physical/dynamical downscaling of model simulations and projections from these GCMs.