Regional climate Modeling activities over South America: From early efforts to CORDEX.

SILVINA A SOLMAN

Climate change perspectives from the Atlantic: past, present and future

Universidad de La Laguna

Lugar: Santa Cruz de Tenerife; Año: 2013; p. 642 - 665

This review summarizes the progress achieved during the last decade on regional climate modeling activities over South America. From the early efforts at the beginning of the 2000s, simulations with Regional Climate Models (RCMs) have been performed for sev- eral purposes over the region. This paper describes the most outstanding contributions from the isolated efforts to the on-going coordinated RCM activities in the framework of the CLARIS-LPB and CORDEX initiatives, which represent a major endeavor to produce ensemble climate-change projections at regional scales. The remaining challenges in modeling South American climate features are also discussed.