Comparing climate models to real world shows differences in precipitation intensity
Monday, April 20, 2015 - 08:20
in Earth & Climate
Precipitation is difficult to represent in global climate models. Although most single-column models can reproduce the observed average precipitation reasonably well, there are significant differences in their details, including mean precipitation intensity. Scientists evaluated the performance of seven single-column models, used by global models to complex processes, by comparing simulated surface precipitation with observations.