Numerical simulation of the circulation and tropical teleconnection mechanisms of a severe drought event (2012–2016) in Northeastern Brazil

Large domains in regional climate models are known to provide a better representation of the mesoscale circulation and hence the precipitation field. To evaluate the model performance in reproducing the tropical circulation as well as the severe drought event (2012–2016) in the northeastern Brazil, simulations for the 2012–2016 period were performed using the tropical band version of the Regional Climate Model (RegT-Band). The RegT-Band...