Comparing Climate Models to Real World Shows Differences in Precipitation Intensity
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 07:30
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. Scientists evaluated several single-column models, providing insights on how to improve models' representation of convection, which is integral to storm cloud formation.