Performance of RCA3-E and RCA3.5 over South America

SÖRENSSON ANNA AMELIA; SAMUELSSON PATRICK

Rossby Centre, Suecia

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Rossby Centre is a partner of the EC 7th framework project CLARIS la Plata basin(CLARIS LPB). Within the context of this multidiciplinary South American – Europe project,Rossby Centre will contribute with regonal climate change scenarios for the South Americancontinent that will be used for impact and adaptation studies of water resources, hydropowerand ecological systems. Partly motivated by this project, the Rossby Centre regionalatmospheric model has been adapted for tropical regions. Here we present some results from acomparison between the performance of RCA3-E and RCA3.5 with 24 and 40 vertical levelsover the continent.