The Sensitivity of Euro-Atlantic Regimes to Model Horizontal Resolution

©2019. The Authors.

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Veröffentlicht in:Geophysical research letters. - 1984. - 46(2019), 13 vom: 16. Juli, Seite 7810-7818
1. Verfasser: Strommen, K (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Mavilia, I, Corti, S, Matsueda, M, Davini, P, von Hardenberg, J, Vidale, P-L, Mizuta, R
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2019
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Geophysical research letters
Schlagworte:Journal Article Euro‐Atlantic atmospheric dynamics climate model clustering horizontal resolution weather regimes
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Zusammenfassung:©2019. The Authors.
There is growing evidence that the atmospheric dynamics of the Euro-Atlantic sector during winter is driven in part by the presence of quasi-persistent regimes. However, general circulation models typically struggle to simulate these with, for example, an overly weakly persistent blocking regime. Previous studies have showed that increased horizontal resolution can improve the regime structure of a model but have so far only considered a single model with only one ensemble member at each resolution, leaving open the possibility that this may be either coincidental or model dependent. We show that the improvement in regime structure due to increased resolution is robust across multiple models with multiple ensemble members. However, while the high-resolution models have notably more tightly clustered data, other aspects of the regimes may not necessarily improve and are also subject to a large amount of sampling variability that typically requires at least three ensemble members to surmount
Beschreibung:Date Revised 14.10.2023
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:0094-8276
DOI:10.1029/2019GL082843