New publication in Theoretical and Applied Climatology
05/14/2024We have a new publication in Theoretical and Applied Climatology: Rai et al. (2024) are the first who investigated how different temperature- and precipitation-based climate indices will change under the influence of climate change by using data from CORDEX-CORE instead of the older CORDEX-CAS-44 data or solely a single simulation.
To achieve this, the authors also briefly examined the effect of overlapping CORDEX domains on the simulations to increaes the ensemble size.
The application of overlapping domains was found to be useful. Regarding the effect of climate change, we found that Central Asia is likely undergo longer dry periods while the rainfall amount increases for heavy precipitation events. The strongest changes, however, were found for temperature indices where, for instance, heat waves are likely to last approximately 90 days longer than under current climate conditions considering the spatial mean of all RCMs investigated.
Rai, P., Bangelesa, F., Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Huang, J., Schaffhauser, T., Pollinger, F., Disse, M. and Paeth, H. (2024):
Extreme precipitation and temperature indices under future climate change in central Asia based on CORDEX-CORE
[DOI] Theoretical and Applied Climatology.
