Ana M. B. Nunes

TL;DR: The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) as mentioned in this paper explores separate and combined uncertainties in regional projections of future climate change resulting from the use of multiple atmosphere- ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) to drive multiple regional climate models (RCMs).

TL;DR: The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) is an international effort designed to investigate the uncertainties in regional-scale projections of future climate and produce highresolution climate change scenarios using multiple regional climate models (RCMs) nested within atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) forced with the Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES) A2 scenario, with a common domain covering the conterminous United States, northern Mexico, and most of Canada as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive intercomparison of historical wind speed trends over the contiguous United States is presented based on two observational data sets, four reanalysis data sets and output from two regional climate models (RCMs).

TL;DR: This article investigated major results of the NARCCAP multiple regional climate model (RCM) experiments driven by multiple global climate models (GCMs) regarding climate change for seasonal temperature and precipitation over North America, focusing on two major questions: how do the RCM simulated climate changes differ from those of the parent GCMs and how important are the relative contributions of RCMs and GCMs to the uncertainty (variance explained) for different seasons and variables?

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the ability of the NARCCAP ensemble of regional climate models to simulate extreme monthly precipitation and its supporting circulation for regions of North America, comparing 18 years of simulations driven by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and Department of Energy (DOE) reanalysis with observations.