Articles | Volume 22, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3933-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3933-2018
Research article
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20 Jul 2018
Research article |  | 20 Jul 2018

Mean and extreme precipitation over European river basins better simulated in a 25 km AGCM

Reinhard Schiemann, Pier Luigi Vidale, Len C. Shaffrey, Stephanie J. Johnson, Malcolm J. Roberts, Marie-Estelle Demory, Matthew S. Mizielinski, and Jane Strachan

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (03 Jun 2018) by Carlo De Michele
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Short summary
A new generation of global climate models with resolutions between 50 and 10 km is becoming available. Here, we assess how well one such model simulates European precipitation. We find clear improvements in the mean precipitation pattern, and importantly also for extreme daily precipitation over 30 major European river basins. Despite remaining limitations, new high-resolution global models hold great promise for improved climate predictions of European precipitation at impact-relevant scales.