Interannual rainfall variability over China in the MetUM GA6  and GC2 configurations

Stephan, Claudia Christine; Klingaman, Nicholas P.; Vidale, Pier Luigi; Turner, Andrew G.; Demory, Marie-Estelle; Guo, Liang

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1823-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1823-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1823-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 5

Model evaluation paper

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08 May 2018

Model evaluation paper |

| 08 May 2018

Interannual rainfall variability over China in the MetUM GA6 and GC2 configurations

Claudia Christine Stephan, Nicholas P. Klingaman, Pier Luigi Vidale, Andrew G. Turner, Marie-Estelle Demory, and Liang Guo

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Final revised paper (published on 08 May 2018)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'A wonderful paper', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Nov 2017
SC1: 'Code Accessibility', Lutz Gross, 13 Nov 2017
- SC2: 'Regarding code availability', Claudia Stephan, 24 Nov 2017
RC2: 'Unconvering observed precipitation variability within models', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 Jan 2018
AC1: 'Final response', Claudia Stephan, 01 Mar 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Claudia Stephan on behalf of the Authors (15 Mar 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (19 Apr 2018) by Richard Neale

AR by Claudia Stephan on behalf of the Authors (21 Apr 2018)

Short summary

Climate simulations are evaluated for their ability to reproduce year-to-year variability of precipitation over China. Mean precipitation and variability are too high in all simulations but improve with finer resolution and coupling. Simulations reproduce the observed spatial patterns of rainfall variability. However, not all of these patterns are associated with observed mechanisms. For example, simulations do not reproduce summer rainfall along the Yangtze valley in response to El Niño.