Development and use of Regional Earth System Model over the Mediterranean and Northern Adriatic Area
Ocean Sciences, Climate
Research area
The climate modeling of the Mediterranean area is quite challenging due to the high complexity of the area in terms of topography and factors driving the dynamics of the area. Numerical tools require to take into account the complexity of the region and the strong interactions which occur between air and sea. Thus the development of the regional earth system models which encompass the high resolution and the air-sea interaction is of paramount importance.
Project goals
Development and testing of high resolution regional earh system models over the Northern Adriatic region with the final purpose to show that coupled systems work better than standalone models in reproducing the dynamics of the area.
Computational approach
Settings and running a coupled model requires high computational power. The same holds for pre-and post processing of the data resulting from the numerical simulations.
Image
Daily precipitation (in mm day-1) in the period September-November 1989-1995 according to EURO4AM (left panel), and differences (in %) between daily precipitation (in mm day-1) in the period September-November 1989-1995 simulated by RegCM (central panel) and RegCM-ES (right panel) and EURO4AM. Dots mark the points where these differences are statistically significant with p<0.05 according to the Mann-Whitney test
Marco Reale
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale
Research at OGS where I work on the development and use of Regional Earth System Models in the Mediterranean region. I have been postdoc at ICTP and OGS, fellow at University of Salento, phd student in environmental and industrial fluid mechanics at university of Trieste. Winner of the Medclivar young scientist award and ESM young scientist award