Added value of EURO-CORDEX high-resolution downscaling over the Iberian Peninsula revisited – Part 1: Precipitation

Careto, João António Martins; Soares, Pedro Miguel Matos; Cardoso, Rita Margarida; Herrera, Sixto; Gutiérrez, José Manuel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2635-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2635-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2635-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 6

Model evaluation paper

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01 Apr 2022

Model evaluation paper |

| 01 Apr 2022

Added value of EURO-CORDEX high-resolution downscaling over the Iberian Peninsula revisited – Part 1: Precipitation

João António Martins Careto, Pedro Miguel Matos Soares, Rita Margarida Cardoso, Sixto Herrera, and José Manuel Gutiérrez

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2635-2022-supplement

Data sets

Iberia01: Daily gridded (0.1º resolution) dataset of precipitation and temperatures over the Iberian Peninsula S. Herrera, R. M. Cardoso, P. M. M. Soares, F. Espírio-Santo, P. Viterbo, and J. M. Gutiérrez https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/8641

Short summary

This work focuses on the added value of high-resolution models relative to their forcing simulations, with a recent observational gridded dataset as a reference, covering the entire Iberian Peninsula. The availability of such datasets with a spatial resolution close to that of regional climate models encouraged this study. For precipitation, most models reveal added value. The gains are even more evident for precipitation extremes, particularly at a more local scale.