2016
DOI: 10.1002/2016jd024796
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Abstract: A significant challenge with dynamical downscaling of climate simulations is the ability to accurately represent convection and precipitation. The use of convection‐permitting resolutions avoids cumulus parameterization, which is known to be a large source of uncertainty. A regional climate model (RCM) based on the Weather Research and Forecasting model is configured with a 4 km grid spacing and applied to the U.S. Great Plains, a region characterized by many forms of weather and climate extremes. The 4 km RCM… Show more

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“…Accurate downscaling of summer precipitation remains a great challenge for most mesoscale models (Gao et al, ; Liang et al, ; Qiao & Liang, ), even at convection‐allowing resolutions (Sun et al, ). Our previous dynamic downscaling of precipitation over the Great Plains for the past climate with the WRF model significantly underestimated warm‐season precipitation over the Southern Great Plains and shifted the band of maximum precipitation to the Rockies and Nebraska (Sun et al, ); in most cases, the rainband was shifted northwestward, regardless of convection‐allowing or convection‐parameterizing configurations. Such a dry bias in the Great Plains was also previously reported (Berg et al, ; Harris & Lin, ; Klein et al, ; Lee et al, ; Ma et al, ; Mearns et al, ; Tripathi & Dominguez, ).…”
Section: Methodssupporting
confidence: 80%
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“…Accurate downscaling of summer precipitation remains a great challenge for most mesoscale models (Gao et al, ; Liang et al, ; Qiao & Liang, ), even at convection‐allowing resolutions (Sun et al, ). Our previous dynamic downscaling of precipitation over the Great Plains for the past climate with the WRF model significantly underestimated warm‐season precipitation over the Southern Great Plains and shifted the band of maximum precipitation to the Rockies and Nebraska (Sun et al, ); in most cases, the rainband was shifted northwestward, regardless of convection‐allowing or convection‐parameterizing configurations. Such a dry bias in the Great Plains was also previously reported (Berg et al, ; Harris & Lin, ; Klein et al, ; Lee et al, ; Ma et al, ; Mearns et al, ; Tripathi & Dominguez, ).…”
Section: Methodssupporting
confidence: 80%
“…Accurate downscaling of summer precipitation remains a great challenge for most mesoscale models (Gao et al, 2017;Liang et al, 2006;Qiao & Liang, 2015), even at convection-allowing resolutions (Sun et al, 2016).…”
Section: High-resolution Dynamic Downscaling Of August Climatementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The performance of WRF12 is also always better than WRF 24 against the two observational data sets. Our result is consistent with the findings in Sun et al [] who report that more realistic precipitation over the Central Plains in WRF with 4 km resolution than that in the 25 km WRF simulation results from the more accurate intensity, location, and diurnal cycle of the low‐level jet.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…And the complexity and diversity of physical processes should be detailedly represented in the climate models to better simulate climate change over East Asia. To generate more detailed spatial and temporal climate information, regional climate models (RCMs), as the dynamical downscaling tools, have been increasingly used to produce climate change information at the regional scale due to their higher resolution and better representation of the key physical processes (Tselioudis et al, 2012;Cha et al, 2016;Sun et al, 2016;Yang et al, 2017).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%