I am trying to downscale statistically from general circulation models and access the impact of climate change in pertaining to urban flooding and urban heat Island.The aim of the study is to advance the resilience planning of Addis Ababa City, However, as far as I have read most of the general circulation models are downscaled for agricultural applications and predictions.There are various models all over the world from different climate centers, and I need to know the recenetand best models that can statistically downloaded under rcp scenarios and applicable for urban climate change vulnerability assessment.
Dear Charles Onyutha,
Thank you very much for your prompt response,
Yes I use CMIP5, and Statistical Downscaling. I also want to consider extreme events,as my work focus on urban environment.The predictands I need are preciptation and Temprature.Okay I will see the documents you have attached,
Please, would you look also at this research if you have plan to use CORDEX Africa
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00708.1
Dear Bedassa Regassa Cheneka,
Thank you very much, I will look over it
Hi Getnet,
For climate change impact studies including the one you are doing, the best practice is to include as many GCMs as you can because it is the best way of quantifying uncertainties and range of possible impacts. However, as it is obvious that you can not include all, so looking at prior studies is the best place to start.
Attached is a preliminary study I and my colleague (Jemal Seid) did on GCM inter-comparison. It was presented on a climate change conference on 2013. Hope you will be able to use it in choosing the models.
Andualem
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