An improved land-surface process model and its simulation experiment-Part II: Coupling simulation experiment of land-surface process model with regional climate model

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Abstract

The Land-surface Process Model (LPM-ZD) has been successfully coupled with the regional climate model RegCM2 of NCAR. Then thus-obtained coupled model (CRegCM) has been applied to simulate the climate characteristics of heavy rain in middle and East China for three months from May to July 1991, and compared with model output of NCAR-RegCM2 using BATS as land-surface process scheme, abbreviated as NRegCM. The results show that CRegCM has good ability and performance. CRegCM successfully simulates the extreme precipitation event and the simulations of CRegCM for surface temperature and some physical variables related to land surface process are more reasonable than those of NRegCM.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)30-45
Number of pages16
JournalActa Meteorologica Sinica
Volume14
Issue number1
StatePublished - Jan 1 2000

Keywords

  • Coupled model simulation
  • Land-surface process model
  • Regional climate model

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