We have a new publication by Tamoffo et al. (2024) in the Journal of Geophysical Reasearch: Atmospheres: "Regionally-coupled Climate Model ROM Projects More Plausible Precipitation Change over Central Equatorial Africa".

The study addresses the challenge of identifying models that can predict credible rainfall patterns in the future, amidst exisitng uncertainties in climate modeling. By comparing the ocean-coupled ROM model with the uncoupled regional model REMO, the results show that ROM offers a better representation of atmospheric baroclinicity linked to rainfall changes. This leads to more reliable projections, as ROM is grounded in mechanisms that are identifiable in observational and reanalysis data.