NCAR Summer School, 13 August 2008
Regional Climate Models
Regional climate models allow use of
finer resolution
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HadCM3 grid spacing is about 280 km.
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To reduce the spacing to 50 km, we would need
(280/50)
3
=
175 times
the computing power.
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Proposal:
Use a finer-scale model over only a limited
region of interest.