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21 Jan 2015
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Assessment of precipitation and temperature data from CMIP3 global climate models for hydrologic simulation
T. A. McMahon
Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
D. J. Karoly
School of Earth Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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Short summary
Here we assess GCM performance from a hydrologic perspective. We identify five better performing CMIP3 GCMs that reproduce grid-scale climatological statistics of observed precipitation and temperature over global land regions for future hydrologic simulation. GCM performance in reproducing observed mean and standard deviation of annual precipitation, mean annual temperature and mean monthly precipitation and temperature was assessed and ranked, and five better performing GCMs were identified.
Here we assess GCM performance from a hydrologic perspective. We identify five better performing...
