| Session Details | |
| Section | AS - Atmospheric Sciences |
| Session Title | Recent Advances in Regional Climate Modeling: Development Challenges and Applications |
| Main Convener | Dr. Eun-Soon Im (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Ho-Jeong Shin (Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea, South) Dr. Chan Joo Jang (Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea, South) Dr. Srivatsan Raghavan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Prof. Hung Soo Kim (Inha University, Korea, South) |
| Session Description | As a potential way to effectively utilize climate information at regional to local scales, dynamical downscaling with a regional climate model (RCM) has been performed across worldwide. Many studies have demonstrated that a RCM can be a key scientific tool for understanding climate processes and assessing the climate changes and their impacts on a regional scale. In this regard, this session invites diverse research activities associated with RCM development and applications from the atmospheric or oceanographic perspective, and aims to share recent advances and to provide a platform to discuss the progress and limitation. We are particularly interested in topics addressing 1) development and its challenges of an integrated modeling system that coupled climate subsystems such as atmosphere, ocean, and biosphere, 2) improvement of the model physics and dynamics, 3) sensitivity of climate system to human influences such as land use, aerosols and greenhouse gases, 4) new approaches for model evaluation and uncertainty assessment, and 5) interdisciplinary applications of downscaled climate data to various impact assessment studies (e.g. agriculture, hydrology). |