Articles | Volume 13, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4749-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4749-2020
Model evaluation paper
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02 Oct 2020
Model evaluation paper |  | 02 Oct 2020

Role of atmospheric horizontal resolution in simulating tropical and subtropical South American precipitation in HadGEM3-GC31

Paul-Arthur Monerie, Amulya Chevuturi, Peter Cook, Nicholas P. Klingaman, and Christopher E. Holloway

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In this study, we assess how increasing the horizontal resolution of HadGEM3-GC31 can allow simulating better tropical and subtropical South American precipitation. We compare simulations of HadGEM3-GC3.1, performed at three different horizontal resolutions. We show that increasing resolution allows decreasing precipitation biases over the Andes and northeast Brazil and improves the simulation of daily precipitation distribution.