Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
GMD
Articles | Volume 15, issue 4
Articles | Volume 15, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1841-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1841-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 4
Model evaluation paper
 | 
03 Mar 2022
Model evaluation paper |  | 03 Mar 2022

Extreme events representation in CMCC-CM2 standard and high-resolution general circulation models

Enrico Scoccimarro, Daniele Peano, Silvio Gualdi, Alessio Bellucci, Tomas Lovato, Pier Giuseppe Fogli, and Antonio Navarra

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1841-2022-supplement

Data sets

CMCC-Foundation/CMCC-CM2-HighResMIP: CMCC-CM2-HighResMIP code for CMIP6 (cmip6-code) Enrico Scoccimarro, Daniele Peano, Silvio Gualdi, Alessio Bellucci, Tomas Lovato, Pier Giuseppe Fogli, and Antonio Navarra https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499856

CMCC CMCC-CM2-HR4 model output prepared for CMIP6 HighResMIP hist-1950 Enrico Scoccimarro, Alessio Bellucci, and Daniele Peano https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1359

CMCC CMCC-CM2-VHR4 model output prepared for CMIP6 HighResMIP Enrico Scoccimarro, Alessio Bellucci, and Daniele Peano https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1367

Climate Hazards Group C. Funk https://doi.org/10.15780/G2RP4Q

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Short summary
This study evaluated the ability of the CMCC-CM2 climate model participating to the last CMIP6 effort, in representing extreme events of precipitation and temperature at the daily and 6-hourly frequencies. The 1/4° resolution version of the atmospheric model provides better results than the version at 1° resolution for temperature extremes, at both time frequencies. For precipitation extremes, especially at the daily time frequency, the higher resolution does not improve model results.
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