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Alleviated WRF Summer Wet Bias Over the Tibetan Plateau Using a New Cloud Macrophysics Scheme
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2023
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Source: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15(10)
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Journal Title:Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
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Description:Reliable precipitation simulation over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) remains a challenge, manifested by a prominent systematic wet bias in the warm season. Previous studies have generally neglected the potential linkage between surface radiation energy budget and precipitation bias. Prevalent scattered cumulus and thunderstorms over the TP in summer strongly influence surface radiation. A cloud fraction scheme considering subgrid temperature and humidity fluctuations is implemented in the WRF model and tested for a month‐long simulation. It is found that the scheme better reproduces the surface solar radiation compared to a default cloud fraction scheme in the WRF model. Using abundant surface observations, we find that overestimation of the downward surface shortwave radiation (DSSR) would lead to wet bias. DSSR overestimation contributes to higher surface temperature and larger evaporation and enhanced atmospheric instability, which favor more simulated convective precipitation. The study suggests that a better simulation of clouds and surface radiation would benefit precipitation simulation over the plateau.
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Source:Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15(10)
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ISSN:1942-2466;1942-2466;
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Rights Information:CC BY-NC
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