Other documents, publications and sites that may be of interest to
PRECIS users
PRECIS projects and news reports:
Uganda PRECIS (RCM) Experiments: PRECIS (RCM) experiments for Uganda and surrounding region:
High-resolution (daily timestep, 0.22 degree grid) climate data are available* for Uganda and the surrounding region from Regional Climate Model (RCM) experiments conducted in UCL Geography by Lucinda Mileham using PRECIS (Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies) developed at the Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office.
PRECIS-CARIBE, online access to Climate Change Scenarios for the Caribbean:
A page which allows for user specified plots to be generated on the fly,
created by INSMET Cuba. Page is in Spanish.
English auto-translation of the PRECIS-CARIBE web page
PACC Ecuador (Proyecto de Adaptacion al Cambio Climatico). Online access to Climate Change Scenario plots for Ecuador as generated by PRECIS. Page is in Spanish.
English auto-translation of the PACC Ecuador web page
ACRE project: Atmospheric Circulations over the Earth. A reanalysis project
for historical observations led by Dr. Rob Allan at the Met Office Hadley Centre. "With the growing concern about climatic change, variability and extremes, there is an equally growing demand for reliable, high-quality and high-resolution historical instrumental observations of past weather and climate."
A Briefing from the PRECIS Caribbean Climate Change Project
: From the University of the West Indies, INSMet Cuba,
and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre.
Humans raise odds of extreme weather:
an article about the work of Peter Stott (UK Met Office), mentions PRECIS as a useful tool
Assessing the impacts of climate change and variability on water
resources in Uganda: Richard Taylor (UCL) and Charles Basilirwa (Makerere University, Uganda)
A project description of PRECIS related work by Emily Black at CGAM, University
of Reading (see page 11)
Workplan for the Netherlands Climate Assistance Programme - Mongolia
Report of use of
PRECIS at 25km resolution over Greece.
Abstract:
Impact and consequences of predicted climate change on Andean glaciation and runoff
Abstract: Projected Temperature Changes Along the American Cordillera with 2x CO2
Investigating the Impacts of Climate Change in India (DEFRA report)
Summary of a
PRECIS demonstration at COP8 by Geoff Jenkins and Richard Jones of
the Met Office and Krishna Kumar of IITM.
Generating High
Resolution Climate Change Scenarios Using PRECIS: A UNDP flyer
for COP9 providing a summary of PRECIS.
PRECIS related publications:
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Regional Climate Model Simulations of Present Day and Future Climates of Southern Africa
: Debbie Hudson and Richard Jones,
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom.
Assessment of Future Change in Temperature and Precipitation in Pakistan as simulated by PRECIS
: Siraj ul Islam,
Global Change Impacts Studies Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan
Future Change in the Frequency of Warm and Cold Spell Durations over Pakistan simulated by PRECIS
: (accompanying poster), Siraj ul Islam,
Global Change Impacts Studies Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan
Regional Climate Forecasts in Eastern Mediterranean, Results for the Period
2071-2100: Vasso Kotroni, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
High Resolution Climate Change Scenarios for India for the 21 Century:
Rupa Kumar Kolli et. al., IITM, India
An assessment of the PRECIS Regional Climate Modelling System: Pascale Martineu
at the University of Quebec at Montreal
Applying the PRECIS Regional Climate Modelling system over eastern North America: Pascale Martineu
Poster: Applying the PRECIS Regional Climate Modelling system over Eastern North America: Pascale Martineu,
for the Regional Climate Modelling workshop at Lund, May 2004
Use of radiosonde data for validation of regional climate modelling simulations over Cyprus:
Panos Hadjinicolaou, Ecognoisa, Cyprus
Simulation of the Taiwan Climate Using the Hadley Centre PRECIS Regional Climate Modeling System: The 1979-1981 Results:
Kuo-Ying Wang, University of Taiwan
Climate Change in the Context of MESA: Jose Marengo, CPTEC, Brazil
Use of Regional Climate Models in Impacts Assessments and Adaptations Studies from Continental
to Regional and Local Scales:
Jose Margengo, Tercio Ambrizzi, CPTEC, Brazil
Background Paper: Impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Latin America
Climate change scenario simulations over Eritrea:
Asmerom Beraki (ACMAD Niger), Masters Thesis
Simulation of present-day climate of tropical Africa using the Hadley Centre regional climate
modelling system:
Andre Kamga (ACMAD Niger), an AIACC project
Investigating the impacts of climate change on Chinese agriculture
(utilising PRECIS), Defra Report.
Abstract: Climate change impacts on crop yield and quality with CO2 fertilization in China:
Yinlong Xu, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Statistical Analyses on Climate Change Scenarios in China with PRECIS
Yinlong Xu, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
The Vulnerability of Food Systems to
Climate Change:
(a project making use of PRECIS) - Andrew Challindor, CGAM, University of Reading, UK
Thermal Seasons in Poland, the present and the future, based on HadRM3/PRECIS results:
(Abstract): Malgorzata Szwed and Dariusz Graczyk, Polish Academy of Science
Heatwaves in the Changing Climate, based on HadRM3/PRECIS results:
(Abstract): Malgorzata Szwed and Dariusz Graczyk, Polish Academy of Science
Dry and Warm Spells in Europe, based on HadRM3/PRECIS results:
(Abstract): I. Przymusinska, Polish Academy of Science
Simulation of 1992 Flood in River Jhelum using PRECIS:
Sajjad Saeed, GCISC, Pakistan
Validation of the PRECIS Regional Climate Model in Bangladesh:
Nazrul Islam, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Study of Extreme Changes in the Present Climate of the Cyprus Region:
Panos Hadjinicolaou, Cyprus
Poster #1: International Conference on African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA):
Dakar, Senegal, November 2005, Wilfran Moufouma-Okia, Met Office, UK
Poster #2: International Conference on African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA):
Dakar, Senegal, November 2005, Wilfran Moufouma-Okia, Met Office, UK
Poster: Comparison of climate change projections for Patagonia viticultural regions generated by GCMs and a regional model PRECIS, Cristina Rossler,
Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina.
Poster: Land Use Changes in the Brazilian Amazonia and the Consequences on the Regional Precipitation and Temperature over Southern America for the 2070-2080 Period as Evaluated with Regional Climate Model PRECIS, Gerardo Carbajal,
Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina.
The Impact of Climate Change on the Water Resources of the
Hindukush-Karakorum-Himalaya region under different glacier coverage scenarios,
Muhammad Akhtar, Pakistan
Simulation of the 1961-1990 climate of Western Africa
using a regional climate model and validation (French language),
Andre Kamga Foamouhoue, ACMAD, Niamey, Niger
Calibration of PRECIS in employing future scenarios
in Bangladesh,
Md. Nazrul Islam, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Performance of the general circulation HadAM3P model in simulating
circulation types over the Mediterranean region,
CHR. Anagnostopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Poster: Present-day regional climate simulation of the North American and West
African Monsoon: A comparative study.
Wilfran Moufouma-Okia, Met Office Hadley Centre, UK
Poster: Performance of the HadRM3P model for downscaling of present climate in South American and accompanying abstract. Lincoln Muniz Alves, CPTEC, Brazil
Powerpoint: PRECIS simulations over Uganda. Lucinda Mileham, University College London, UK
Powerpoint: PRECIS activities in Africa. Dr. Joseph Intsiful, Met Office, Exeter, UK
Regional Climate Change over Southeast Asia Region and accompanying abstract. Mohan Kumar Sammathuria, Malaysian Meteorological Department, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Poster (in Spanish): Bacillus anthracis: Projections of future scenarios of climate change in areas of Alert and Response : C. Rossler,
Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina
(In Spanish): Abstract: Climate change and viticulture: present and future climate variability and fitness aptitude in 3 locations in Patagonia: Nidia Barbero, Cristina Rossler, and Pablo Canziani: Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina. English translation.
Mesoscale cyclonic eddies in the Black Sea Region: Vladimir Efimov, Darya Yarovaya, Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Sevastopol, Ukraine
Using GIS Technology to assess the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources in Saudi Arabia: Faisal Macci Al Zawad, Presidency of Meteorology and Environment, Damman, Saudi Arabia
Validation of PRECIS over Saudi Arabia: Faisal Macci Al Zawad, Presidency of Meteorology and Environment, Damman, Saudi Arabia
PRECIS vs. RegCM3 biases (using ERA40 and CRU):
Siraj ul Islam,
Global Change Impacts Studies Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan
Meeting Report: PRECIS themed scientific meeting at the Center for International Forestry Research in Burkina Faso, West Africa
Climate change scenario for Costa Rican montane forests:
AV Karmalkar, RS Bradley, HF Diaz. Dept. of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA.
Masters Dissertation: The Representation of Extreme Precipitation in the HadRM3P (PRECIS) Regional Climate Model.
David Hein - Hadley Centre Met Office and University of Reading.
Postscript Version (50MB).
Impact of MOSES2 land surface scheme and TRIFFID dynamic vegetation model on the simulation of regional climate and climate change over India
J. Sanjay, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India.
Simulation Of Climate Scenarios Over The Lake Victoria Basin Using The PRECIS Regional Climate Model:
Geoffrey Sabiiti, Assistant Lecturer, Department of Geography, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Poster: Evaluacion preliminar de la variacion en las frecuencias de las categorias de riesgo de incendios en bosques andino-patagonicos debido al cambio climatico: Cristina Rossler and Diana Mielnicki, Instituto de Investigacion e Ingenieria Ambiental - 3iA - UNSAM.
Masters Thesis: Impact of Climate Change on Evaporation, Surface Runoff and Soil Moisture on a Regional Scale in Saudi Arabia:
Faisal Macci Al Zawad, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Miscellaneous:
Regional climate modelling: As well as the references given
in the PRECIS Handbook
bibliography, Chapter 10 of the IPCC Third
Assessment Working Group 1 report (2001) has a survey of recent
activities in regional modelling (as well as other regionalisation
techniques) and a comprehensive list of references. The following two
papers provide good overviews:
- Giorgi, F. and L. O. Mearns, 1991: Approaches to the
simulation of regional climate change: a review. Rev. Geophys. 29,
191-216
- Giorgi, F. and L. O. Mearns, 1999: Introduction to special
section: Regional climate modeling revisited. J. Geophys. Res. 104 No.
D6, 6335-6352
Regional model intercomparison projects: See EU
projects PRUDENCE
and MERCURE as
well as US project PIRCS.
Climate Scenario construction: Chapter 13 of the IPCC Third
Assessment Report Working Group 1 report and Chapter 3 from the Working
Group 2 report deal with the development and application of climate
scenarios. The IPPC Data Distribution Centre have also
produced the documents Guidelines
on the use of scenario data for climate impact and adaptation assessment
and Guidelines
for Use of Climate Scenarios Developed from Regional Climate Model
Experiments.
Engaging stakeholders: The UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)
was set up by the UK government's Department
for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to help
organisations assess how they might be affected by climate change. The
latest
report uses data from the RCM on which PRECIS is based.
Sites of other relevant organisations:
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: UNFCCC;
- United Nations Development Programme: UNDP;
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Data Distribution
Centre: IPCC DDC ;
- IPCC
Special Report on Emissions Scenarios: SRES;
- The Climate
Impacts LINK project, from which (among other things) data can be
obtained from the PRECIS model run over Europe;
- The Canadian
Regional Climate Modelling Network of the University of Quebec.
- The HIRHAM
regional atmospheric climate model.
Visualisation and Analysis Tools:
Sample statistical
plots from PRECIS runs over South Asia by IITM:
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