[PDF] Top 20 Sensitivity of the simulated precipitation to changes in convective relaxation time scale

... Srinivasan: Sensitivity of simulated precipitation to changes in TAU showed that, when the value of TAU was set to approximately 2 h, the observed features ...adjustment time ... See full document

... The simulated precipitation from the 8-km grid is veri- fied against raingauge ...the precipitation thresh- olds, model results using the modifications of the convective scheme show ... See full document

... structure changes significantly from case to case, in a manner that roughly reflects the changes of the structure of the mean precipitation in ...mean precipitation, which is rather zonally ... See full document

... sub-hourly precipitation are not available in the region used in this study, 3 h observations of total precipitation are available from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) (Kummerow et al, ... See full document

... In addition, the DWD operates a network of 17 C-band Doppler radars over Germany and part of neighbor- ing countries (see Figure 1 of Zeng et al., 2016), which can provide reflectivity and radial wind measurements in ... See full document

... the simulated profiles are almost equal to unity at the surface and very close to it at later times (curve (e) below the Raleigh damping layer ...BC changes the flow and convective activity, since ... See full document

... the simulated profiles are almost equal to unity at the surface and very close to it at later times (curve (e) below the Raleigh damping layer ...BC changes the flow and convective activity, since ... See full document

... and precipitation processes. A deep cumulus cloud and precipitation event was simulated and a sensitivity study was carried out using a set of initial aerosol profiles at the surface level to ... See full document

... on convective events taking place south of the catch- ment, ...affect simulated precipitation in the WRF model in the study ...where precipitation is mixed-phase (like on the ridges of ... See full document

... potential changes in the strengths of atmo- spheric circulations associated with precipitation ...increased precipitation, the increased latent heating may lead to stronger large-scale ascent ... See full document

... of convective precipitation looks adequate in WRF with a pronounced peak in the afternoon ...The convective scheme of ERA5 is more active compared to that of the simulations, espe- cially during ... See full document

... observations. Time- and area-averaged forcing values were computed for three different scenarios: 1) in the RUC analyses using the 6 h prior to the time and location of initiation of the observed convection ... See full document

... predictable precipitation associated with higher thresholds to be harder to quantify, and indeed this is seen in Figure 9 for the ...within precipitation regions for the model, but at the edge of ... See full document

... Southern Africa (12 to 41 mm yr 1 per decade) and drying over East Africa ( 14 to 65 mm yr 1 per decade in March –May rainfall). However, considerable differences in trend sign and magnitude exist, particularly over ... See full document

... Finally, in Fig. 10, the scattering asymmetry parameter (cosine averaged scattering con- tribution over all angles) describes the degree to which incident radiation is forward scat- tered ( g > 0 ) or backward ... See full document

... radar sensitivity to melting, there is also an interest in understanding the sensitivity of passive microwave brightness temperatures to the onset of ...is simulated, with no atmospheric gases or ... See full document

... with precipitation and temperature pro- jections from 25 global climate models (GCMs) under two greenhouse gas emission scenarios, we explore the variabil- ity in modeled runoff in the near future (2016–2035) and ... See full document

... observed convective structures in the Oregon Coastal ...produced precipitation fields at 3-km resolution, finding an encouragingly similar behavior at scales above 5 times the resolution ...they ... See full document

... AND PRECIPITATION Wei-Kuo Tao, 1 Jen-Ping Chen, 2 Zhanqing Li, 3,4 Chien Wang, 5 and Chidong Zhang 6 Received 14 July 2011; revised 2 December 2011; accepted 18 December 2011; published 17 April ...to ... See full document

... The MCIT algorithm package (Hu et al., 2018) has been used as the primary tool to produce data set with cloud cell life information in this study. A cell is defined as a local maximum of vertically integrated liquid ... See full document