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Korean Meteorological Society (한국기상학회)
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Application of the WRF Model for Dynamical Downscaling of Climate Projections from the Community Earth System Model (CESM)

WRF V3.3 모형을 활용한 CESM 기후 모형의 역학적 상세화

  • 서지현 (한국환경정책.평가연구원) ;
  • 심창섭 (한국환경정책.평가연구원) ;
  • 홍지연 (한국환경정책.평가연구원) ;
  • 강성대 ((주) 그린시뮬레이션) ;
  • 문난경 (한국환경정책.평가연구원) ;
  • 황윤섭 (경희대학교정경대학무역학과)
  • Received : 2013.04.30
  • Accepted : 2013.07.15
  • Published : 2013.09.30
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Abstract

The climate projection with a high spatial resolution is required for the studies on regional climate changes. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) has provided downscaled RCP (Representative Concentration Pathway) scenarios over Korea with 1 km spatial resolution. If there are additional climate projections produced by dynamically downscale, the quality of impacts and vulnerability assessments of Korea would be improved with uncertainty information. This technical note intends to instruct the methods to downscale the climate projections dynamically from the Community Earth System Model (CESM) to the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model. In particular, here we focus on the instruction to utilize CAM2WRF, a sub-program to link output of CESM to initial and boundary condition of WRF at Linux platform. We also provide the example of the dynamically downscaled results over Korean Peninsula with 50 km spatial resolution for August, 2020. This instruction can be helpful to utilize global scale climate scenarios for studying regional climate change over Korean peninsula with further validation and uncertainty/bias analysis.

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