CIMA   09099
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES DEL MAR Y LA ATMOSFERA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
A review of procedures to compute climatological length of seasons based on CORDEX simulations over Europe and South America
Autor/es:
ENRIQUE SANCHEZ; NOELIA LOPEZ DE LA FRANCA; ANDREA F. CARRIL; CLAUDIO G. MENÉNDEZ
Lugar:
Estocolmo
Reunión:
Congreso; International Conference on Regional Climate. ICRC -CORDEX 2016; 2016
Institución organizadora:
Stockholm university
Resumen:
Definition and determination of the start and end of seasons is a typically and widely known discussion from a non-technical point of view. When it is translated to a more rigorous and systematic procedure from a climatological framework, many definitions and locally-based criteria are obtained. Several proposals have been made, depending on fixed, percentile-based thresholds or physically-based phenomena, among others. In general, it is hard to find how the annual cycle of temperature seen in any location can be translated into an objective non-local definition about the start and end of seasons. At the same time, the heterogeneity of the different climates on relatively nearby regions adds another challenge to be able to make consensus about those definitions. It is usual that some seasons like the more extreme ones (summer or winter) could present a clearer procedure for its definition, but it seems to be more complex for spring or autumn if extreme thresholds are being looked for. Here we propose to take advantage of the high spatial resolution obtained by the regional climate model simulations available at the CORDEX initiative over several domains to review and analyze different procedures to obtain the start and end of the four seasons that cover the whole year. Europe and South America domains seem to be suitable to study if some general or common definition can be made for those magnitudes. It could be also of high interest the effort to propose some objective or common way to obtain them, despite huge variety of the climatic conditions present at different regions. And a second challenging focus would be that how they could be modified, displaced, reduced or enhanced when increased greenhouse gases conditions are present

