[RegCNET] Regional Climate Modeling and impacts CL4.3, EGU2010 , 2-7 May 2010 in Vienna

[Ashraf Zakey]

    Dear Friends,


    Happy new year. Sorry if there is cross-posting, but I wanted to
    bring your attention to the session CL4.3, "Regional climate
    modeling and impacts" at the upcoming EGU 2010 General Assembly on
    2-7 May 2010 in Vienna, which we are co-convening with R. Arritt.

    The deadline for submission of Abstracts is January 18, so there is
    still time to submit your contribution and make this as exciting a
    session as in previous years (or hopefully more). We hope you will
    be able to submit a paper,



    All the best wishes
    Yours Sincerely

    Ashraf Zakey and Filippo Giorgi


    The Abdu Salam International Ceneter for Theortical Physics (ICTP)
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    CL4.3
    Regional Climate Modeling and impacts


Convener: Ashraf Zakey
Co-Conveners: Filippo Giorgi , Raymond Arritt


Regional climate change is influenced greatly by regional features such 
as topography , which are not well represented in global models
because of their coarse resolution. Models of higher resolution cannot 
practically be used for global simulation of long periods of time.
To overcome this, regional climate models,RCM's, with a higher 
resolution ( 20 km) are constructed for limited areas and run for longer
periods (20 years or so).

Contributions are solicited on all aspects of regional climate changes 
and regional climate models, including descriptions of cooperative
regional climate modeling projects. The session will include discussion 
of potential contributions of regional climate modeling toward the IPCC
Fifth Assessment Report, including international collaborations such as 
CORDEX.


* Regional climate modeling, dynamics and physical processes in RCMs
* Drought, flood monitoring using RCMs over arid & Semi-arid regions
* Climate change and seasonal prediction using RCMs
* Regional climate information from global climate models
* Land-Surface interaction and climate feedback
* Climate impacts on crop production
* Impact of Climate changes on land-use and desertification in arid and 
Semi-arid regions

We are looking forword to your contribution.