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contributor authorPrein, Andreas F.
contributor authorHolland, Gregory J.
contributor authorRasmussen, Roy M.
contributor authorDone, James
contributor authorIkeda, Kyoko
contributor authorClark, Martyn P.
contributor authorLiu, Changhai H.
date accessioned2017-06-09T17:07:49Z
date available2017-06-09T17:07:49Z
date copyright2013/07/01
date issued2013
identifier issn0894-8755
identifier otherams-79829.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4222652
description abstractummer and winter daily heavy precipitation events (events above the 97.5th percentile) are analyzed in regional climate simulations with 36-, 12-, and 4-km horizontal grid spacing over the headwaters of the Colorado River. Multiscale evaluations are useful to understand differences across horizontal scales and to evaluate the effects of upscaling finescale processes to coarser-scale features associated with precipitating systems.Only the 4-km model is able to correctly simulate precipitation totals of heavy summertime events. For winter events, results from the 4- and 12-km grid models are similar and outperform the 36-km simulation. The main advantages of the 4-km simulation are the improved spatial mesoscale patterns of heavy precipitation (below ~100 km). However, the 4-km simulation also slightly improves larger-scale patterns of heavy precipitation.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleImportance of Regional Climate Model Grid Spacing for the Simulation of Heavy Precipitation in the Colorado Headwaters
typeJournal Paper
journal volume26
journal issue13
journal titleJournal of Climate
identifier doi10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00727.1
journal fristpage4848
journal lastpage4857
treeJournal of Climate:;2013:;volume( 026 ):;issue: 013
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