On the role of resolution and topography in the simulation of East Asia precipitation |
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Authors: | Xuejie Gao Ying Xu Zongci Zhao J S Pal F Giorgi |
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Institution: | (1) The Laboratory of Climate Study of China Meteorological Administration, National Climate Center, Beijing, China;(2) The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy |
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Abstract: | Summary In this paper, we investigate the role that horizontal resolution plays in the simulation of East Asia precipitation. Two
sets of numerical experiments are performed using the Regional Climate Model (RegCM2) nested in one-way mode within the CSIRO
global coupled atmosphere-ocean model. In the first set we use the actual RegCM2 topography at the selected model resolutions,
which are 45, 60, 90, 120, 180, 240 and 360 km. In the second set of the experiments, the same coarse CSIRO model topography
is used in all simulations using the different resolutions of the first set. The results demonstrate that the simulation of
East Asian precipitation improves as the horizontal resolution is increased. Moreover, it is shown that the simulations using
a higher resolution along with the coarse CSIRO topography perform better than the simulations using a coarser model resolution
with corresponding model topography. This suggests that over East Asia adequate spatial resolution to resolve the physical
and dynamical processes is more important than topography. Lastly, the results indicate that model resolutions of 60 km or
higher are needed to accurately simulate the distribution of precipitation over China and East Asia. |
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