NCAR Summer
School, 13 August 2008
How do regional climate
models work?
Run the
global model, storing output several times per
day (usually every 6 hours).
Initialize
the regional
model by interpolating
global model
results to the regional
model grid.
Periodically
update the regional
model in a zone around
its lateral boundaries using
later results from the global
model.
results from global model