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Development and technical paper
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18 Aug 2021
Development and technical paper |
| 18 Aug 2021
| 18 Aug 2021
Mitigation of the double ITCZ syndrome in BCC-CSM2-MR through improving parameterizations of boundary-layer turbulence and shallow convection
Beijing Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, 100081, China
Tongwen Wu
Beijing Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, 100081, China
Yubin Li
School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
Ben Yang
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
CMA-NJU Joint Laboratory for Climate Prediction Studies, Nanjing
University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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Short summary
The spurious precipitation in the tropical southeastern Pacific and southern Atlantic is one of the most prominent systematic biases in coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation models. This study significantly promotes the marine stratus simulation and largely alleviates the excessive precipitation biases through improving parameterizations of boundary-layer turbulence and shallow convection, providing an effective solution to the long-standing bias in the tropical precipitation simulation.
The spurious precipitation in the tropical southeastern Pacific and southern Atlantic is one of...
