A review on regional convection‐permitting climate modeling: Demonstrations, prospects, and challenges

AF Prein, W Langhans, G Fosser… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Regional climate modeling using convection‐permitting models (CPMs; horizontal grid
spacing< 4 km) emerges as a promising framework to provide more reliable climate …

Convection‐permitting modeling with regional climate models: Latest developments and next steps

P Lucas‐Picher, D Argüeso, E Brisson… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Approximately 10 years ago, convection‐permitting regional climate models (CPRCMs)
emerged as a promising computationally affordable tool to produce fine resolution (1–4 km) …

Projected increases and shifts in rain-on-snow flood risk over western North America

KN Musselman, F Lehner, K Ikeda, MP Clark… - Nature Climate …, 2018 - nature.com
Destructive and costly flooding can occur when warm storm systems deposit substantial rain
on extensive snowcover,,,,–, as observed in February 2017 with the Oroville Dam crisis in …

[HTML][HTML] A study of aerosol impacts on clouds and precipitation development in a large winter cyclone

G Thompson, T Eidhammer - Journal of the atmospheric …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Study of Aerosol Impacts on Clouds and Precipitation Development in a Large Winter
Cyclone in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 71 Issue 10 (2014) Jump to …

Continental-scale convection-permitting modeling of the current and future climate of North America

C Liu, K Ikeda, R Rasmussen, M Barlage, AJ Newman… - Climate Dynamics, 2017 - Springer
Orographic precipitation and snowpack provide a vital water resource for the western US,
while convective precipitation accounts for a significant part of annual precipitation in the …

The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, part I: evaluation of precipitation

N Ban, C Caillaud, E Coppola, E Pichelli… - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
Here we present the first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-
scale horizontal grid spacing over a decade long period. A total of 23 simulations run with a …

Spatial variation of the rain–snow temperature threshold across the Northern Hemisphere

KS Jennings, TS Winchell, B Livneh… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite the importance of precipitation phase to global hydroclimate simulations, many land
surface models use spatially uniform air temperature thresholds to partition rain and snow …

[HTML][HTML] Our skill in modeling mountain rain and snow is bypassing the skill of our observational networks

J Lundquist, M Hughes, E Gutmann… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
In mountain terrain, well-configured high-resolution atmospheric models are able to simulate
total annual rain and snowfall better than spatial estimates derived from in situ observational …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution coupled climate runoff simulations of seasonal snowfall over Colorado: A process study of current and warmer climate

R Rasmussen, C Liu, K Ikeda, D Gochis… - Journal of …, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
High-Resolution Coupled Climate Runoff Simulations of Seasonal Snowfall over Colorado: A
Process Study of Current and Warmer Climate in: Journal of Climate Volume 24 Issue 12 (2011) …

Regional climate models: 30 years of dynamical downscaling

FJ Tapiador, A Navarro, R Moreno, JL Sánchez… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Regional Climate Models (RCMs) emerged 30 years ago as a transient tool to
provide detailed estimates of meteorological parameters (temperature, precipitation …