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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1827-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1827-2020
Model description paper
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06 Apr 2020
Model description paper |  | 06 Apr 2020

TIER version 1.0: an open-source Topographically InformEd Regression (TIER) model to estimate spatial meteorological fields

Andrew J. Newman and Martyn P. Clark

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This paper introduces the Topographically InformEd Regression (TIER) model, which uses terrain attributes to turn observations of precipitation and temperature into spatial maps. TIER allows our understanding of complex atmospheric processes such as terrain-enhanced precipitation to be modeled in a very simple way. TIER lets users change the model so they can experiment with different ways of making maps. A key conclusion is that small changes in TIER will change the final map.