Table 1 Experimental design for estimating the contributions of climatology and perturbation changes and their nonlinear effect to regional climate change

From: Contributions of changes in climatology and perturbation and the resulting nonlinearity to regional climate change

Run name

Description of experiment

Boundary data

Present-DDS

Present climate experiment by DDS method

\({\mathrm{P{\prime}}} + \left\langle {\mathrm{P}} \right\rangle \)

Pseudo-Clim-DS

Pseudo-climatology-change downscaling experiment

\({\mathrm{P{\prime}}} + \left\langle {\mathrm{F}} \right\rangle \)

Pseudo-Perturb-DS

Pseudo-perturbation-change downscaling experiment

\({\mathrm{F{\prime}}} + \left\langle {\mathrm{P}} \right\rangle \)

Future-DDS

Future climate experiment by DDS method

\({\mathrm{F{\prime}}} + \left\langle {\mathrm{F}} \right\rangle \)

  1. 〈 〉 and ′ indicate the climatology and perturbation, respectively, of the large-scale boundary condition. P and F indicate the present and future climate data, respectively, provided by MRI-AGCM3.2S
  2. DDS direct dynamical downscaling