Abstract Understanding future precipitation changes is critical for water supply and flood risk applications in the western United States. The North American COordinated Regional Downscaling EXperiment (NA-CORDEX) matrix of global regional climate models at multiple resolutions (~ 50-km 25-km grid spacings) used to evaluate mean monthly precipitation, extreme daily snow equivalent (SWE) over St...

Abstract Rainfall is considered the most important physical process for landslide triggering in Portugal. It expected that changes precipitation regimes region, as a direct consequence of climate change, will have influence occurrence extreme rainfall events be more frequently, throughout century. The aim this study relied on assessment projected future over Portugal mainland and quantifying co...

The Amazon basin is characterized by a strong interplay between the atmosphere and vegetation. Anthropogenic land use and land cover change (LULCC) affects vegetation and the exchange of energy and water with the atmosphere. Here we have assessed potential LULCC impacts on climate and natural vegetation dynamics over South America with a regional Earth system model that also accounts for vegeta...

This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of seven Earth System Models (ESMs) from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 in present climate conditions from a downscaling perspective, taking into account the requirements of both statistical and dynamical approaches. ECMWF’s ERA-Interim reanalysis is used as reference for an evaluation of circulation, temperature and humidity var...

Abstract. Over the years, higher-resolution regional climate model simulations have emerged owing to large increase in computational resources. The 12 km resolution from Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment for European domain (EURO-CORDEX) is a reference, which includes larger multi-model ensemble at continental scale while spanning least 130-year period. These are computational...

Abstract This study assesses the performance of large ensembles global (CMIP5, CMIP6) and regional (CORDEX, CORE) climate models in simulating extreme precipitation over four major river basins (Limpopo, Okavango, Orange, Zambezi) southern Africa during period 1983–2005. The ability model to simulate seasonal indices is assessed using three high-resolution satellite-based datasets. results show...

An effort is made to implement a regional earth system model (RESM); ROM, over CORDEX-South Asia (SA). The added value of RESM assessed for mean precipitation, its variability (intraseasonal interannual), extremes, and associated processes. In this regard, ROM’s fields are compared with the respective standalone version (REMO), models belonging coupled intercomparison project (CMIP5 CMIP6), cli...