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Resolution dependence of European precipitation in a state-of-the-art atmospheric general circulation model

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Journal of Climate, 0 (0): null (0)
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00279.1

Abstract

Using a decomposition of the precipitation difference between the medium- and high resolution model in a part related and a part unrelated to a difference in the distribution of vertical atmospheric velocity, we find that the smaller precipitation bias in central and northern Europe is largely unrelated to a difference in vertical velocity distribution. The smaller precipitation amount in these areas is in agreement with less moisture transport over this area in the high resolution model. We found that in areas with orography the change in vertical velocity distribution is more important.

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