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THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY
Volume 100, Issue 3-4, Pages 337-350Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0165-2
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- MMA/BIRD/GEF/CNPq
- Ministry of Science and Technology MCT
- UK Global Opportunity Fund-GOF Dangerous Climate Change (DCC)
- GEOMA
- LBA2 Millennium Institute
- CLARIS-LPB
- Brazilian Research Council CNPq
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy and skill of the UK Met Office Hadley Center Regional Climate Model (HadRM3P) in describing the seasonal variability of the main climatological features over South America and adjacent oceans, in long-term simulations (30 years, 1961-1990). The analysis was performed using seasonal averages from observed and simulated precipitation, temperature, and lower- and upper-level circulation. Precipitation and temperature patterns as well as the main general circulation features, including details captured by the model at finer scales than those resolved by the global model, were simulated by the model. However, in the regional model, there are still systematic errors which might be related to the physics of the model (convective schemes, topography, and land-surface processes) and the lateral boundary conditions and possible biases inherited from the global model.
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