Comparison of HadCM3, CSIRO Mk3 and GFDL CM2.1 in Prediction the Climate Change in Taleghan River Basin

Arash YoosefDoost^1, , Icen YoosefDoost², Hossein Asghari³ and Mohammad Sadegh Sadeghian¹

¹Civil Engineering Department, Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

²Water Science and Engineering Department, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran

³Environment Department, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Cite this paper:
Arash YoosefDoost, Icen YoosefDoost, Hossein Asghari and Mohammad Sadegh Sadeghian. Comparison of HadCM3, CSIRO Mk3 and GFDL CM2.1 in Prediction the Climate Change in Taleghan River Basin. American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture. 2018; 6(3):93-100. doi: 10.12691/ajcea-6-3-1

Abstract

Climate change is a complex and long-term global atmospheric-oceanic phenomenon which can be influenced by natural factors such as volcanoes, solar, oceans and atmosphere activities which they have interactions between or may be as a result of human activities. Atmospheric general circulation models are developed for simulation of current climate of the earth and are able to predict the earth's future climate change. In this paper, the performance of GFDL CM2.1, CSIRO Mk3 and HadCM3 AOGCMs were assessed and evaluated in the study of the climate change effects on temperature and precipitation in Taleghan basin. The results show that HadCM3 model in comparison with CSIRO Mk3 and GFDL CM2.1 models has indicated the better performance in this region.

Keywords:
Atmosphere General Circulation Models AOGCM CSIRO Mk3 HadCM3 Climate Change Taleghan Region

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