Articles | Volume 14, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-5183-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-5183-2021
Development and technical paper
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18 Aug 2021
Development and technical paper |  | 18 Aug 2021

Mitigation of the double ITCZ syndrome in BCC-CSM2-MR through improving parameterizations of boundary-layer turbulence and shallow convection

Yixiong Lu, Tongwen Wu, Yubin Li, and Ben Yang

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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.
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