Sensitivity studies with the regional climate model COSMO-CLM 5.0 over the CORDEX Central Asia Domain

Russo, Emmanuele; Kirchner, Ingo; Pfahl, Stephan; Schaap, Martijn; Cubasch, Ulrich

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-5229-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-5229-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-5229-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 12

Model evaluation paper

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13 Dec 2019

Model evaluation paper |

| 13 Dec 2019

Sensitivity studies with the regional climate model COSMO-CLM 5.0 over the CORDEX Central Asia Domain

Emmanuele Russo, Ingo Kirchner, Stephan Pfahl, Martijn Schaap, and Ulrich Cubasch

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-5229-2019-supplement

Data sets

COSMO-CLM outputs Central Asia Russo et al. 2019 Emmanuele Russo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3516708

Model code and software

Namelist Inputs COSMO-CLM Simulation CORDEX Central Asia domain Russo et al. 2019 Emmanuele Russo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3516676

Executable research compendium (ERC)

R Scripts Posprocessing COSMO-CLM outputs Central Asia Russo et al. 2019 Emmanuele Russo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3516622

Short summary

This is an investigation of COSMO-CLM 5.0 sensitivity for the CORDEX Central Asia domain, with the main goal of evaluating general model performances for the area, proposing a model optimal configuration to be used in projection studies. Results show that the model seems to be particularly sensitive to those parameterizations that deal with soil and surface features and that could positively affect the repartition of incoming radiation.