Precipitation in complex orography simulated by the regional climate model RCA3

Title

Precipitation in complex orography simulated by the regional climate model RCA3

 Author

Guttler, I.
Stepanov, I.
Nikulin, G.
Jones, C.
Brankovic, C.

Faculty

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

 Department

Geoscience & Remote Sensing

 Date

2014-06-16

 Abstract

The aim of this study is to evaluate the improvement in simulated precipitation of the third version of the Rossby Centre Climate model (RCA3), when run at horizontal resolutions of 50, 25, 12 and 6 km. The analysis is focused on the countries of Switzerland and Norway, where complex orography can play a dominant role in precipitation formation. Observation data sets used for model validation were for Switzerland, the RhiresD dataset, an approximately 2-km resolution product of the Swiss National Meteorological Service (MeteoSwiss), and over Norway, the KLIMAGRID dataset (Mohr, 2007), a 1-km resolution product of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (METNO), is used. The range of horizontal resolutions in experiments facilitates a systematic analysis of the impact of increasing the horizontal resolution on precipitation, in two different climate regimes.

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 Publisher

Baltic Earth

 ISSN

2198-4247

 Source

International Baltic Earth Secretariat Publication, 3, 2014; Proceedings of the 3rd Lund Regional-Scale Climate Modelling Workshop, 21st Century Challenges in Regional Climate Modelling, Lund, Sweden, 16-19 June 2014

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

conference paper

 Rights

(c) 2014 The Author(s)
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