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Regional Climate Models: Simulation of Mesoscale Phenomena
Call for Papers
Due to their great complexity and associated computational cost, global climate models are forced to run at relatively coarse resolutions. Although GCMs can provide some information regarding the response of the global circulation to large-scale forcings, because of their coarse resolution the mesoscale forcings, such as coastal line, complex topography, vegetation cover, and lakes, they are not well represented. However, decision-makers are often interested in the local climate, and this in turn requires high resolution to capture these features. Regional climate models (RCMs) have therefore been developed to downscale larger-scale simulations and to provide predictions for specific regions. This special issue will cover a wide range of RCMs-related topics from basic research, such as theoretical aspects of the numeric and parameterizations, to applications such as impact studies in the context of climate variability and change. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Nesting strategy used in RCM, for example, nudging and boundary-condition treatments
- Improvements of parameterizations in RCMs
- Regional coupled climate system modeling (chemistry-climate)
- Simulation of regional characteristics in limited areas of the globe
- Simulation of climate variability and change
- Impact of global warming
- Impact of ENSO episodes
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/amet/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/amet/rcm/ according to the following timetable:
| Manuscript Due | Friday, 19 April 2013 |
| First Round of Reviews | Friday, 12 July 2013 |
| Publication Date | Friday, 6 September 2013 |
Lead Guest Editor
- Sergio H. Franchito, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Caixa Postal 515, 12201-970 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
Guest Editors
- Saulo R. Freitas, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Caixa Postal 515, 12201-970 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
- Vadlamudi B. Rao, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Caixa Postal 515, 12201-970 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
- S. S. V. S. Ramakrishna, Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India