Browsing by Subject "precipitation"
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An evaluation of operational and research weather forecasts for southern West Africa using observations from the DACCIWA field campaign in June–July 2016
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Reliable and accurate weather forecasts, particularly those of rainfall and its extremes, have the potential to improve living conditions in densely populated southern West Africa (SWA). The limited availability of ... -
Bias correction of daily precipitation for ungauged locations using geostatistical approaches: A case study for the CORDEX‐Africa ensemble
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Climate model simulations typically exhibit a bias, which can be corrected using statistical approaches. In this study, a geostatistical approach for bias correction of daily precipitation at ungauged locations is presented. ... -
Convective rain cell characteristics and scaling in climate projections for Germany
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Extreme convective precipitation is expected to increase with global warming. However, the rate of increase and the understanding of contributing processes remain highly uncertain. We investigated characteristics of ... -
Melting Behavior of Rimed and Unrimed Snowflakes Investigated With Statistics of Triple‐Frequency Doppler Radar Observations
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Comparing the reflectivity flux at the top and bottom of the melting layer (ML) reveals the overall effect of the microphysical processes occurring within the ML on the particle population. If melting is the only process ... -
Mesoscale marine tropical precipitation varies independently from the spatial arrangement of its convective cells
Brueck, Matthias;; (Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2020)
The relationship between mesoscale convective organization, quantified by the spatial arrangement of convection, and oceanic precipitation in the tropical belt is examined using the output of a global storm-resolving ... -
Potential Added Value of Incorporating Human Water Use on the Simulation of Evapotranspiration and Precipitation in a Continental-Scale Bedrock-to-Atmosphere Modeling System: A Validation Study Considering Observational Uncertainty
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Human activities, such as human water use, have been shown to directly influence terrestrial water fluxes and states. Simulations of soil moisture, river discharge, evapotranspiration, and groundwater storage are significantly ... -
Recent evidence for warmer and drier growing seasons in climate sensitive regions of Central America from multiple global datasets
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Smallholder livelihoods throughout Central America are built on rain‐fed agriculture and depend on seasonal variations in temperature and precipitation. Recent climatic shifts in this highly diverse region are not well ... -
Sorption von Metallen und Halbmetallen im bergbaulich beeinflußten Feuchtgebiet Lengenfeld / Vogtland
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Stable Isotope Composition of Cyclone Mekunu Rainfall, Southern Oman
; ; Weise, Stephan M.; Al Abri, Omar; Bait Said, Ali Bakhit Ali; (Water Resources Research, 2020-12-14)
Cyclone Mekunu hit the southern Arabian Peninsula in late May 2018 and brought rainfall amounts that accounted for up to 6 times the mean annual precipitation. Coming from the Arabian Sea, a quite underdocumented region ... -
Statistical Forecasts for the Occurrence of Precipitation Outperform Global Models over Northern Tropical Africa
Vogel, Peter;; ; ; Klar, Manuel; (Geophysical Research Letters, 2021-02-02)
Short‐term global ensemble predictions of rainfall currently have no skill over northern tropical Africa when compared to simple climatology‐based forecasts, even after sophisticated statistical postprocessing. Here, we ... -
The Role of Moisture Conveyor Belts for Precipitation in the Atacama Desert
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In the hyperarid Atacama Desert in northern Chile, rare precipitation events can leave long‐lasting geomorphological traces and have strong impacts on biota. While moisture conveyor belts (MCBs) and atmospheric rivers (ARs) ... -
Tropical Continents Rainier Than Expected From Geometrical Constraints
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Abundant rainfall over tropical land masses sustains rich ecosystems, a crucial source of biodiversity and sink of carbon. Here, we use two characteristics of the observed tropical precipitation distribution, its distinctive ... -
Variability of the precipitation over the Tianshan Mountains, Central Asia. Part I: Linear and nonlinear trends of the annual and seasonal precipitation
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The Tianshan Mountains, with their status as ‘water tower’, receive quantities of precipitation that are among the highest in Central Asia. There are considerable knowledge gaps regarding the understanding of spatial and ...
