Impacts of Lateral-Boundary-Condition Errors on Regional Climate Downscaling: Lessons Learned from the NASA Downscaling Project

Weile Wang1, Takamichi Iguchi2, Jonathan Case3, Eric M Kemp4, William Putman5, Di Wu5, Robert Ferraro6, Christa D Peters-Lidard7 and Ramakrishna R Nemani8, (1)CSUMB & NASA/AMES, Seaside, CA, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)ENSCO, Inc./NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Sciences and Exploration Directorate, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States