Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-57-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-57-2017
Methods for assessment of models
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05 Jan 2017
Methods for assessment of models |  | 05 Jan 2017

ASoP (v1.0): a set of methods for analyzing scales of precipitation in general circulation models

Nicholas P. Klingaman, Gill M. Martin, and Aurel Moise

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Weather and climate models show large errors in the frequency, intensity and persistence of daily rainfall, particularly in the tropics. We introduce a set of diagnostics to reveal the spatial and temporal scales of precipitation in models and compare them to satellite observations to inform development efforts. Although models show similar errors in 3 h precipitation, at the time step and gridpoint level some produce coherent precipitation and others exhibit worrying quasi-random behavior.