Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1277-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1277-2023
Model description paper
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22 Feb 2023
Model description paper |  | 22 Feb 2023

A new precipitation emulator (PREMU v1.0) for lower-complexity models

Gang Liu, Shushi Peng, Chris Huntingford, and Yi Xi

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Due to computational limits, lower-complexity models (LCMs) were developed as a complementary tool for accelerating comprehensive Earth system models (ESMs) but still lack a good precipitation emulator for LCMs. Here, we developed a data-calibrated precipitation emulator (PREMU), a computationally effective way to better estimate historical and simulated precipitation by current ESMs. PREMU has potential applications related to land surface processes and their interactions with climate change.
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