Print Email Facebook Twitter Precipitation in complex orography simulated by the regional climate model RCA3 Title Precipitation in complex orography simulated by the regional climate model RCA3 Author Guttler, I. Stepanov, I. Nikulin, G. Jones, C. Brankovic, C. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Geoscience & Remote Sensing Date 2014-06-16 Abstract The aim of this study is to evaluate the improvement in simulated precipitation of the third version of the Rossby Centre Climate model (RCA3), when run at horizontal resolutions of 50, 25, 12 and 6 km. The analysis is focused on the countries of Switzerland and Norway, where complex orography can play a dominant role in precipitation formation. Observation data sets used for model validation were for Switzerland, the RhiresD dataset, an approximately 2-km resolution product of the Swiss National Meteorological Service (MeteoSwiss), and over Norway, the KLIMAGRID dataset (Mohr, 2007), a 1-km resolution product of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (METNO), is used. The range of horizontal resolutions in experiments facilitates a systematic analysis of the impact of increasing the horizontal resolution on precipitation, in two different climate regimes. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0d42050f-a309-4d50-95e9-60eaeba1c088 Publisher Baltic Earth ISSN 2198-4247 Source International Baltic Earth Secretariat Publication, 3, 2014; Proceedings of the 3rd Lund Regional-Scale Climate Modelling Workshop, 21st Century Challenges in Regional Climate Modelling, Lund, Sweden, 16-19 June 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2014 The Author(s) Files PDF 310687.pdf 761.41 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0d42050f-a309-4d50-95e9-60eaeba1c088/datastream/OBJ/view