@Article{PilottoChouNobr:2012:SeClHi,
               author = "Pilotto, Isabel and Chou, Sin Chan and Nobre, Paulo",
          affiliation = "{} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Seasonal climate hindcasts with Eta model nested in CPTEC coupled 
                         ocean-atmosphere general circulation model",
              journal = "Theoretical and Applied Climatology",
                 year = "2012",
               volume = "110",
                pages = "437--456",
             keywords = "regional climate models (RCMs), Eta model, CPTEC atmospheric 
                         general circulation model, South America, tropical Atlantic, 
                         climate hindcasts.",
             abstract = "This work evaluates the added value of the downscaling technique 
                         employed with the Eta model nested in the CPTEC atmospheric 
                         general circulation model and in the CPTEC coupled oceanatmosphere 
                         general circulation model (CGCM). The focus is on the austral 
                         summer season, DecemberJanuaryFebruary, with three members each 
                         year. Precipitation, latent heat flux, and shortwave radiation 
                         flux at the surface hindcast by the models are compared with 
                         observational data and model analyses. The global models generally 
                         overestimate the precipitation over South America and tropical 
                         Atlantic. The CGCM and the nested Eta (Eta + C) both produce a 
                         split in the ITCZ precipitation band. The Eta + C produces better 
                         precipitation pattern for the studied season. The Eta model 
                         reduces the excessive latent heat flux generated by these global 
                         models, in particular the Eta + C. Comparison against PIRATA buoys 
                         data shows that the Eta + C results in the smallest precipitation 
                         and shortwave radiation forecast errors. The Eta + C comparatively 
                         best results are though as a consequence of both: the regional 
                         model resolution/physics and smaller errors on the lateral 
                         boundary conditions provided by the CGCM.",
                  doi = "10.1007/s00704-012-0633-y",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-012-0633-y",
                 issn = "0177-798X",
                label = "lattes: 4336175279058172 2 PilottoChanNobr:2012:SeClHi",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "Pilotto.pdf",
                  url = "http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-012-0633-y?null",
        urlaccessdate = "16 maio 2024"
}