@InProceedings{SanchezBSGSRJRSMRCPMCLL:2010:PrClVa,
               author = "Sanchez, E and Berbery, E H and Solman, S A and 
                         Garc{\'{\i}}a-Ochoa, R and Samuelsson, P and Remedio, A C and 
                         Jacob, Daniela and Rojas, M and S{\"o}rensson, A A and Menendez, 
                         C and da Rocha, R P and Castro, Manuel and Pessacg, Natalia L and 
                         Marengo, Jos{\'e} Ant{\^o}nio and Chou, Sin Chan and Li, Laurent 
                         and Le Treut, H",
          affiliation = "UCLM, Toledo, Spain and U. Maryland, College Park, MD, USA and 
                         UBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina and UCLM, Toledo, Spain and 
                         SMHI, Norrk{\"o}ping, Sweden and MPI, Hamburg, Germany and MPI, 
                         Hamburg, Germany and U. Chile, Santiago, Chile and CIMA/CONICET, 
                         Buenos Aires, Argentina and CIMA/CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina 
                         and USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil and UCLM, Toledo, Spain and 
                         UBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)} and Laurent.Li@lmd.jussieu.fr and LMD, Paris, 
                         France",
                title = "Present climate validation of an ensemble of regional climate 
                         models over South America forced by 1989-2008 ERAinterim 
                         reanalysis",
            booktitle = "Abstracts...",
                 year = "2010",
         organization = "The Meeting of the Americas.",
             keywords = "Climatology, land and atmosphere interactions, precipitation, 
                         regional modeling.",
             abstract = "The results of a set of coordinated regional climate simulations 
                         performed with a group of regional climate models (RCM) over South 
                         America is presented. The RCMs are forced by ERAinterim reanalysis 
                         and the simulated period comprises 21 years, from 1989 to 2008. 
                         The motivation of this study is twofold. First, to characterize 
                         the uncertainty in simulating the South American climate through 
                         the evaluation of the degree of agreement among different models. 
                         A special focus will be made over the La Plata Basin (LPB) region. 
                         Second, to evaluate the capability of the regional models ensemble 
                         in representing the observed climate. Tthe simulations are 
                         validated against CRU and an observational database of daily 
                         precipitation and temperature data compiled for the LPB region. In 
                         a first overview, the spatial structure of maximum, minimum and 
                         mean daily temperature and precipitation is evaluated. Several 
                         subregions are chosen for a more detailed description, and 
                         therefore the mean annual cycle, the interannual variability and 
                         the frequency distribution functions of monthly values of 
                         precipitation and temperatures over each of the subregions are 
                         evaluated. This validation of a group of RCMs is included in 
                         CLARIS LPB project (A Europe-South America Network for Climate 
                         Change Assessment and Impact Studies in La Plata Basin, EU FP7 
                         framework programme, 2008-2012), where regional climate change 
                         scenarios are planned to be performed once the validation analysis 
                         of present climate is made.",
  conference-location = "Foz do Igua{\c{c}}u, BR",
      conference-year = "08-12 aug 2010",
             language = "en",
        urlaccessdate = "21 maio 2024"
}