Projected climate change information at regional scales is important for adaptation measures. However, regional downscaling is a resource-expensive exercise. Given the overlapping domain, conducting a collaborative effort is in the best interest of countries within the Southeast Asia region (SEA). With this objective, the Southeast Asia Regional Climate Initiative (SEARCI) was established during a workshop at Hanoi University of Science (HUS) on 2-3 August 2012 and attended by scientists from Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. Under SEARCI a collaborative climate downscaling exercise (SEACLID) will be carried out for a common SEA domain, employing 5 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) Global Climate Models (GCMs), 3 Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) and the Regional Climate Model version 4 (RegCM4).
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Project publications
Process-based analysis of the impacts of sea surface temperature on climate in CORDEX-SEA simulations
Projected future changes in drought characteristics over Southeast Asia
Potential influence of sea surface temperature representation in climate model simulations over CORDEX‐SEA domain
Climate change impact on sea surface winds in Southeast Asia
Climatological characterization of tropical cyclones detected in the regional climate simulations over the CORDEX-SEA domain
Projected evolution of drought characteristics in Vietnam based on CORDEX-SEA downscaled CMIP5 data
Time of emergence of climate signals over Vietnam detected from the CORDEX-SEA experiments
The relevance of CORDEX Southeast Asia regional climate projection: Malaysia’s perspectives
Multi-model projections of precipitation extremes in Southeast Asia based on CORDEX-Southeast Asia simulations
Future projections of Malaysia daily precipitation characteristics using bias correction technique
Climate analog and future appearance of novel climate in Southeast Asia
Projected future changes in rainfall in Southeast Asia based on CORDEX–SEA multi-model simulations
SouthEast Asia HydrO-meteorological droughT (SEA-HOT) framework: A case study in the Kelantan River Basin, Malaysia
Extreme Rainfall Projections for Malaysia at the end of 21st Century using the high resolution Non-Hydrostatic Regional Climate Model (NHRCM)
Future hydro-meteorological drought of the Johor River Basin, Malaysia, based on CORDEX-SEA projections
Application of quantile mapping bias correction for mid-future precipitation projections over Vietnam
Projected future changes in mean precipitation over Thailand based on multi‐model regional climate simulations of CORDEX Southeast Asia
Project Final Report: ARCP2015+04CMY-Tangang
Future changes in annual precipitation extremes over Southeast Asia under global warming of 2°C
Performances of BATS and CLM land-surface schemes in RegCM4 in simulating precipitation over CORDEX Southeast Asia domain
Sensitivity of temperature to physical parameterization schemes of RegCM4 over the CORDEX-Southeast Asia region
Bias correction of global and regional simulated daily precipitation and surface mean temperature over Southeast Asia using quantile mapping method
Observed changes in extreme temperature and precipitation over Indonesia
ENSO modulation of seasonal rainfall and extremes in Indonesia
Characteristics of precipitation extremes in Malaysia associated with El Niño and La Niña events
Sensitivity of Southeast Asia rainfall simulations to cumulus and air-sea flux parameterizations in RegCM4
Performance evaluation of RegCM4 in simulating extreme rainfall and temperature indices over the CORDEX-Southeast Asia region
