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Rosa, D. and Collins, W. D. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-9848
(2013)
A case study of subdaily simulated and observed continental convective precipitation:CMIP5 and multiscale global climate models comparison.
Geophysical Research Letters, 40 (22).
pp. 5999-6003.
ISSN 0094-8276
Abstract
We analyze subdaily continental convective precipitation data relative to the Southeastern U.S. from gridded rain gauge measurements, conventional global climate models (GCMs) from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) archive, and a multiscale GCM. GCMs react too quickly to local convective instability and, therefore, overestimate the incidence of middle rainfall events and underestimate the incidence of no, little, and heavy rainfall events. Moreover, GCMs overestimate the persistence of heavy precipitation and underestimate the persistence of no and light precipitation. In general, GCMs with suppression mechanisms in the treatments of convective precipitation compare best with rain gauge derived data and should be trusted more than the others when assessing the risk from extreme precipitation events. The multiscale GCM has the best estimate of the diurnal cycle and a good estimate of heavy rainfall persistence.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cloud resolving modeling,cmip5,convection,diurnal cycle,global climate model,precipitation,geophysics,general earth and planetary sciences,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1908 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jul 2026 14:41 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jul 2026 23:03 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103664 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/2013GL057987 |
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