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Model evaluation paper
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02 Oct 2020
Model evaluation paper |
| 02 Oct 2020
| 02 Oct 2020
Role of atmospheric horizontal resolution in simulating tropical and subtropical South American precipitation in HadGEM3-GC31
Department of Meteorology, National Centre for Atmospheric Science
(NCAS), University of Reading, Reading, UK
Amulya Chevuturi
Department of Meteorology, National Centre for Atmospheric Science
(NCAS), University of Reading, Reading, UK
Peter Cook
Department of Meteorology, National Centre for Atmospheric Science
(NCAS), University of Reading, Reading, UK
Nicholas P. Klingaman
Department of Meteorology, National Centre for Atmospheric Science
(NCAS), University of Reading, Reading, UK
Christopher E. Holloway
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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Short summary
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.
In this study, we assess how increasing the horizontal resolution of HadGEM3-GC31 can allow...
