| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S18328/01 |
| Title: |
Construction of climate scenarios for the integrating framework: built enviroment, transport and utilities |
| Principal Investigator: |
Jones, Professor PD |
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Climatic Research Unit |
| Organisation: |
University of East Anglia |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 2003 |
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31 March 2006 |
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105,178
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Given the need for (a) self-consistent scenarios for a number of variables (precipitation, mean temperature, diurnal temperature range, vapour pressure/relative humidity, sunshine duration, wind speed and potential evapotranspiration), and (c) sub-hourly precipitation scenarios, (in the form of mean changes, time series and probability distributions) the most appropriate approaches to scenario construction involve the development and application of- two (i.e., daily and hourly) weather generators (WGs) available in the Climatic Research Unit; and, - the Generalised Neyman-Scott Rectangular Pulses (GNSRP) model for the construction of specialised rainfall scenarios by the Water Resource Systems Research Laboratory.The current generation of regional climate models, such as HadRM3, neglect urbanized portions of the land surface, thus ignoring potential chant, the urban heat island effect and the impacts of additional heat sources in cities. This problem will be addressed by the Hadley Centre using a new representation of urban areas in general circulation model simulations of climate change.
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