| PI: |
Aad van Ulden
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| Institution: | KNMI |
Additional Investigators: |
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Geert Lenderink |
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Regional climate characteristics are strongly influenced by the statistics of regional atmospheric circulations. Therefore, regional climate change will depend not only on global scale changes but also on possible changes in the atmospheric circulations. In this paper, we will analyse coupled model simulations of monthly mean pressure fields and geostrophic winds over Europe. Simulated circulation statistics will be compared with the statistics of long observation records. The impact of biases and changes in the simulated circulation statistics on European climate change will be assessed.
Required data: Time series of monthly mean sea level pressure, surface temperature and precipitation on a coarse grid over Europe. Time series of annual mean temperature and precipitation, averaged over the Northern and over the Southern Hemisphere. |
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