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

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3933-2018

Articles | Volume 22, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3933-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3933-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 7

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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RC1: 'general review', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Feb 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to comments by reviewer 1', Reinhard Schiemann, 09 May 2018
RC2: 'Review of the manuscript HESS-2017-732 “Mean and extreme precipitation over European river basins better simulated in a 25km AGCM”', Anonymous Referee #2, 15 Feb 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to comments by reviewer 2', Reinhard Schiemann, 09 May 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (03 Jun 2018) by Carlo De Michele

AR by Reinhard Schiemann on behalf of the Authors (04 Jun 2018)

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (20 Jun 2018) by Carlo De Michele

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (26 Jun 2018)

ED: Publish as is (12 Jul 2018) by Carlo De Michele

AR by Reinhard Schiemann on behalf of the Authors (12 Jul 2018)

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.