The Influence of Topography on East African October to December Climate: Sensitivity Experiments with RegCM4

Table 3

Statistics of the model simulated mean OND temperature (Tm in °C) over east Africa (Tm*EA), averaged over 28°E–42°E, 12°S–5°N and that over KTU (Tm*KTU), averaged over longitudes 34°E–38°E and latitudes 6°S–2°N for the control experiment (TP100), sensitivity experiments with topography reduced to 75% (TP75) and 25% (TP25), and the observed CRU data. B*EA and B*KTU are temperature biases over EA and KTU, respectively, with respect to TP100.

	Tm*EA (°C)	Tm*KTU (°C)	B*EA (°C)	B*KTU (°C)
CRU	24.4	22.1
TP100	24.0	21.7
TP75	24.5	24.3	0.5	2.6
TP25	25.4	29.7	1.4	8.0