Research Article

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

Table 1

Model configuration used in the study.

ContentRegCM4.0

Resolution50 km
Map projectionNormal Mercator
Horizontal dimension192 × 110 ()
Vertical levels18
Cumulus convection:Grell (Grell, 1993 [47])
Planetary boundary layerHoltslag et al. (1990 [42]),
Bretherton et al. (2004 [44])
MicrophysicsSUBEX (Pal et al. 2000 [51])
Land Surface ProcessesCLM3.5 (Steiner et al. 2009 [54];
Tawfik and Steiner, 2011 [55])