PIRCS - Regional Climate Modeling

Model	Investigator	Grid	Levels	Dynamics	Convection Scheme	Lateral Boundary Condition	Reference
RSM-NCEP	Hong	PS	28	HYD	Grell	EXP/10	Jung et al. [1997]
RSM-Scripps	Roads, Chen	MER	28	HYD	A-S	EXP/10	Juang and Kanamitsu [1994]
MM5	Lapenta	LC	32	NON	Grell	LIN/4	Grell et al. [1993], Lakhtakia and Warner[1994]
RegCM2	Pan	LC	14	HYD	Grell	EXP/10	Giorgi et al. [1993a,b], Giorgi et al. [1996]
DARLAM	McGregor, Katzfey	PS	18	HYD	Modified A-S	EXP/9	McGregor et al. [1993], McGregor and Walsh [1994]
HIRHAM4	Christensen, Lopez	MER	19	HYD	MF	EXP/10	Christensen et al. [1997]
ClimRAMS	Liston, Pielke	PS	20	NON	K-A	PAR/10	Pielke et al. [1992]
ISU RAMS	Silva	PS	24	NON	K-A	PAR/8	Pielke et al. [1992]

Dynamics;HYD, hydrostatic; NON, nonhydrostatic. Horizontal grid types; MER, Mercator (latitude-longitude); PS, polar stereographic; LC, Lambert conformal. Convection scheme; AS, Arakawa and Schubert [1974]; Grell [1993] and Grell et al. [1993]; MF, mass flux scheme following Tiedtke [1989]; CA, convective adjustment; KA, Kuo [1974]. Lateral BC: weighting function used blending large-scale and internal tendencies (LIN, linear decrease toward center of domain; EXP, exponential decrease; PAR, parabolic decrease) and number of grid points in the blending region.