DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0818.1
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85052959457
论文题名: A process-based assessment of CMIP5 rainfall in the Congo basin: The September-November rainy season
作者: Creese A. ; Washington R.
刊名: Journal of Climate
ISSN: 8948755
出版年: 2018
卷: 31, 期: 18 起始页码: 7417
结束页码: 7439
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Africa
; Atmospheric circulation
; Climate models
; General circulation models
; Model errors
; Model evaluation/performance
Scopus关键词: Oceanography
; Rain
; Tropics
; Africa
; Atmospheric circulation
; General circulation model
; Model errors
; Model evaluation/performance
; Climate models
英文摘要: Congo basin September-November rainfall varies by up to a factor of 3 across CMIP5 coupled models. The severe lack of observational data in this region makes model evaluation difficult using standard techniques. This study uses a process-based assessment to evaluate the plausibility of mechanisms related to coupled model rainfall in September-November. Models tend to simulate a rainfallmaximumin either the west or east of the basin. In most months, western Congo rainfall is positively correlated with eastern Congo rainfall across models, as relatively wet models are often wetter everywhere; however, in August- November this correlation becomes insignificant, suggesting that processes relating to rainfall differences in each subdomain are distinct. Composite analysis of wet and dry models in each subdomain suggests that the tropical eastern Atlantic SST bias helps differentiate between models in the west: wetter models tend to have a larger (~1°-2°C) and more equatorward SST bias, higher evaporation over the ocean, and higher local convection. In the east, rainfall differences between models are related to more remote SST differences, including cold South Atlantic and warm eastern Indian Ocean SSTs. Wetter models exhibit stronger westerly flow across the tropical eastern Atlantic, as part of an enhanced equatorial zonal overturning cell. Dry models in the east feature a stronger and more equatorward northerly component of the midlevel African easterly jet, which may contribute to suppressed convection over the domain. This assessment casts doubt on the credibility of models that are very wet in the west of the Congo basin and have a large Atlantic SST bias. © 2018 American Meteorological Society. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/111404
Appears in Collections: 气候减缓与适应
There are no files associated with this item.
作者单位: School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Creese A.,Washington R.. A process-based assessment of CMIP5 rainfall in the Congo basin: The September-November rainy season[J]. Journal of Climate,2018-01-01,31(18)