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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
Volume 33, Issue 11, Pages 2591-2608Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3616
Keywords
regional climate modelling; precipitation; WRF; high resolution; climatology; ERA-Interim; Iberian Peninsula; gridded observations
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- Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) [REWRITE - PTDC/CLI/73814/2006]
- European Union under Program FEDER
- EU FP6 Integrated Project ENSEMBLES [GOCE-CT-2003-505539]
- FCT [SFRH/BPD/47221/2008]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/47221/2008] Funding Source: FCT
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In this study precipitation from a high resolution WRF climate simulation is presented and evaluated against daily gridded observations in the Iberian Peninsula. The simulation corresponds to a dynamical downscaling of ERA-Interim, in the period 1989-2009, performed with two nested grids, at 27 and 9km horizontal resolution. The higher resolution simulation indicates a significantly improved representation of Iberian precipitation fields, at all timescales, with emphasis on the representation of variability and of extreme weather statistics. Results compare well with recent studies with other models and/or for other regions, further supporting the use of WRF as a regional climate model.
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