Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-425-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-425-2019
Development and technical paper
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24 Jan 2019
Development and technical paper |  | 24 Jan 2019

A hydrological cycle model for the Globally Resolved Energy Balance (GREB) model v1.0

Christian Stassen, Dietmar Dommenget, and Nicholas Loveday

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A Hydrological Cycle Model for the Globally Resolved Energy Balance Model (GREB) v1.0 C. Stassen, D. Dommenget, and N. Loveday https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2232282

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In this research article, we describe the development of a new model for the water cycle (evaporation, precipitation and transport) for a simple climate model called GREB. Before this work, the water cycle in GREB was merely a dummy. We compare our simple model against more complex models and find a similar skill. The results illustrate that the new GREB model's water cycle is a useful tool to study the changes of the water cycle to external forcings like El Niño or climate change.