Climate Change Research

Climate Change Research

Review of Climate Change Simulation Studies in Iran

Document Type : Review

Authors
Aida Deyrmajaei 1
Mehry Akbary 2
1 Ph.D. Candidate of Climatology, Department of Physical Geography, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
2 Associate Professor of Climatology, Department of Physical Geography, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran,
10.30488/ccr.2024.461465.1225
Abstract
The emergence and manifestation of the consequences of climate change in recent decades and the importance of global warming, lead to research in the field of climate change simulation using general circulation models (GCMs) for future periods of time. A review of the references that have dealt with this matter in Iran, and evaluating of these researches, can identify their methodology and strengths and weaknesses and guide the compensation of shortcomings. The articles that have been published in the field of projection of climate change in Iran; are reviewed and almost 110 articles that were closer to the subject and purpose of the current research analyzed and the content changes of the articles in the last two decades were also compared and evaluated. the results identified the most widely used GCM models and down scale methods and the amount of content changes of the articles in using several models and scenarios and compared the validation of outputs in the last two decades and revealed their improvement and the shortcomings of the researches. also, the results showed the attention of many researchers in this field on the future of agriculture and water resources of Iran as a semi-arid country
Keywords
Climate
Future
Simulation
Projection
GCMs

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