Editorial: Modelling, Simulating and Forecasting Regional Climate and Weather

摘要

Originally, climatology was a regional science (von Storch, 1999)—and the global climate merelysomething put together from the real and challenging findings—the regional climate analyses.Also, weather forecasting was mostly considered a process, which was made possible by regionalinformation, and was of interest only for a regional audience. This has massively changed since,say, the 1960s, when systems for assembling observations from all corners of the globe were setup, and when global atmospheric models appeared as the dynamically right way to describe thecirculation of the atmosphere. Thus, the global view became the dominant one in climatology, andin forecasting.