Articles | Volume 16, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-6531-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-6531-2023
Model evaluation paper
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15 Nov 2023
Model evaluation paper |  | 15 Nov 2023

Evaluating 3 decades of precipitation in the Upper Colorado River basin from a high-resolution regional climate model

William Rudisill, Alejandro Flores, and Rosemary Carroll

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It is important to know how well atmospheric models do in mountains, but there are not very many weather stations. We evaluate rain and snow from a model from 1987–2020 in the Upper Colorado River basin against the available data. The model works rather well, but there are still some uncertainties in remote locations. We then use snow maps collected by aircraft, streamflow measurements, and some advanced statistics to help identify how well the model works in ways we could not do before.
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