@InProceedings{RochaAmbCuaFerFer:2006:PrDaCl,
               author = "Rocha, Rosmeri Porfirio and Ambrizzi, Tercio and Cuandra, Santiago 
                         Vianna and Ferraz, Simone Erotildes Teleginski and Fernandes, Juan 
                         Pablo",
          affiliation = "Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, 
                         University of Sao Paulo and {} and {} and {} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "RegCM3 simulations nested in the Hadley Center Model over South 
                         America: the present day climate",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2006",
               editor = "Vera, Carolina and Nobre, Carlos",
                pages = "373--378",
         organization = "International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and 
                         Oceanography, 8. (ICSHMO).",
            publisher = "American Meteorological Society (AMS)",
              address = "45 Beacon Hill Road, Boston, MA, USA",
             keywords = "Regional climate model, climate change, seasonal variability.",
             abstract = "The analysis of ten-years simulation of present-day climate 
                         (1961-1970) over South America using the RegCM model nested within 
                         the HadAMH global atmospheric model is presented here. The main 
                         objective is to analyze the simulated climatology and interanual 
                         variability in some regional areas over South America. The RegCM 
                         simulation domain includes almost all South America and it has 60 
                         km of horizontal resolution with 23 vertical sigma levels. The air 
                         temperature and precipitation simulated are compared with the 
                         observational data set. The mean circulation at lower and high 
                         levels was also compared with NCEP reanalysis and HadAMH 
                         climatologies. The preliminary results indicate that the simulated 
                         mean seasonal values of precipitation and air temperature have an 
                         interanual variability comparable with the observational data set 
                         over the South America domain. Two subdomain were chosen for the 
                         regional analyses: one covering the Amazon Basin (AMZ) and another 
                         over Southeast Brazil (SDE). Comparison between the simulated and 
                         observational data was also carried out in the subdomains and it 
                         is shown that they are in good agreement as well. However, along 
                         of the year the air temperature in the AMZ subdomain seems to be 
                         colder and the precipitation during the summer is systematic 
                         smaller than the observational data. The simulation over SDE shows 
                         that both the mean seasonal precipitation and air temperature 
                         interanual variability are very similar to the observational data, 
                         with a small seasonal negative bias for both variables. In 
                         general, for both subdomains the model was able to capture the 
                         precipitation and air temperature seasonal variability quite well. 
                         These results have motivated further simulations with the RegCM 
                         using simulated data from future climate scenarios and the results 
                         will be presented elsewhere.",
  conference-location = "Foz do Igua{\c{c}}u",
      conference-year = "24-28 Apr. 2006",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
             language = "en",
         organisation = "American Meteorological Society (AMS)",
                  ibi = "cptec.inpe.br/adm_conf/2005/10.31.20.23",
                  url = "http://urlib.net/ibi/cptec.inpe.br/adm_conf/2005/10.31.20.23",
           targetfile = "373-378.pdf",
                 type = "Climate change in the SH",
        urlaccessdate = "29 jun. 2024"
}