Research Article
Recent Changes in the Annual Mean Regional Hadley Circulation and Their Impacts on South America
Table 1
Technical details of the simulation performed.
| | Simulation parameters | | | Domain cartographic projection (iproj) | Rotated Mercator (ROTMER) | | Grid point horizontal resolution in km (ds) | 60.0 km | | Number of points in the N/S direction (iy) | 152 | | Number of points in the E/W direction (jx) | 192 | | Number of vertical levels (kz) | 18 | | Central latitude of model domain in degrees (clat) | −23.00 | | Central longitude of model domain in degrees (clon) | −33.00 | | Cumulus convection scheme (icup) | 1-Kuo | | Moisture scheme (ipptls) | 1-Explicit moisture (SUBEX; Pal et al. [42]) | | Lateral boundary conditions scheme (iboudy) | 5-Relaxation, exponential technique | | Boundary layer scheme (ibltyp) | 1-Holtslag PBL [43] | | Ocean flux scheme (iocnflx) | 2-Zeng et al. [44] |
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