Metrics for the diurnal cycle of precipitation: Toward routine benchmarks for climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 4461-4471

  Covey, Curt ^a   Gleckler, Peter J ^a   Doutriaux, Charles ^a   Williams, Dean N ^a   Dai, Aiguo ^b   Fasullo, John ^c   Trenberth, Kevin ^c   Berg, Alexis ^d  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean structure Phenomena; Climate models; Diurnal effects; Models and modeling; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

DATA ENCAPSULATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DIURNAL EFFECTS; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; MODEL INTERCOMPARISONS; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAP;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BAROCLINIC WAVE; CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 84974831593     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0664.1     Document Type: Article

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