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Nonstationary stochastic rain type generation: accounting for climate drivers
Lionel Benoit
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Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics (IDYST), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Mathieu Vrac
Laboratory for Sciences of Climate and Environment (LSCE-IPSL), CNRS/CEA/UVSQ, Orme des Merisiers, France
Gregoire Mariethoz
Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics (IDYST), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Short summary
At subdaily resolution, rain intensity exhibits a strong variability in space and time due to the diversity of processes that produce rain (e.g., frontal storms, mesoscale convective systems and local convection). In this paper we explore a new method to simulate rain type time series conditional to meteorological covariates. Afterwards, we apply stochastic rain type simulation to the downscaling of precipitation of a regional climate model.
At subdaily resolution, rain intensity exhibits a strong variability in space and time due to...
