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DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2677-z
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84959125625
论文题名:
Spatial distribution of precipitation annual cycles over South Africa in 10 CORDEX regional climate model present-day simulations
作者: Favre A.; Philippon N.; Pohl B.; Kalognomou E.-A.; Lennard C.; Hewitson B.; Nikulin G.; Dosio A.; Panitz H.-J.; Cerezo-Mota R.
刊名: Climate Dynamics
ISSN: 9307575
出版年: 2016
卷: 46, 期:2017-05-06
起始页码: 1799
结束页码: 1818
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Annual cycle of precipitation ; CORDEX-Africa ; Evaluation ; Regional climate model
英文摘要: This study presents an evaluation of the ability of 10 regional climate models (RCMs) participating in the COordinated Regional climate Downscaling Experiment-Africa to reproduce the present-day spatial distribution of annual cycles of precipitation over the South African region and its borders. As found in previous studies, annual mean precipitation is quasi-systematically overestimated by the RCMs over a large part of southern Africa south of about 20°S and more strongly over South Africa. The spatial analysis of precipitation over the studied region shows that in most models the distribution of biases appears to be linked to orography. Wet biases are quasi-systematic in regions with higher elevation with inversely neutral to dry biases particularly in the coastal fringes. This spatial pattern of biases is particularly obvious during summer and specifically at the beginning of the rainy season (November and December) when the wet biases are found to be the strongest across all models. Applying a k-means algorithm, a classification of annual cycles is performed using observed precipitation data, and is compared with those derived from modeled data. It is found that the in-homogeneity of the spatial and temporal distribution of biases tends to impact the modeled seasonality of precipitation. Generally, the pattern of rainfall seasonality in the ensemble mean of the 10 RCMs tends to be shifted to the southwest. This spatial shift is mainly linked to a strong overestimation of convective precipitation at the beginning of the rainy season over the plateau inducing an early annual peak and to an underestimation of stratiform rainfall in winter and spring over southwestern South Africa. © 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
资助项目: NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/53799
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作者单位: Centre de Recherches de Climatologie (CRC), CNRS UMR 6282 Biogéosciences, Université de Bourgogne, 6 boulevard Gabriel, Dijon, France; CSAG, ENGEO Department, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering (LHTEE), Aristotle University, Thessaloníki, Greece; Rossby Centre, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Norrköping, Sweden; European Commission Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra, Italy; Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research – Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; Laboratorio de Ingenería y Procesos Costeros, UNAM, Sisal, Yucatan, Mexico

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Favre A.,Philippon N.,Pohl B.,et al. Spatial distribution of precipitation annual cycles over South Africa in 10 CORDEX regional climate model present-day simulations[J]. Climate Dynamics,2016-01-01,46(2017-05-06)
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