Comparison between Grell and Kuo cumulus parameterization schemes for South America.


Este trabajo fue expuesto por la Dra. Yamina Silva en el:

PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Modeling System Users' Workshop
Junio 21 - 23, 2000
NCAR Foothills Laboratory
Boulder, CO


Abstract
Real-time precipitation forecasts over tropical South America for September 1999 and March 2000 performed using PSU/NCAR MM5 with Grell cumulus parameterization scheme were compared with simulations performed under the same model conditions but using Kuo scheme. The area of study was divided into regions with an area of 5ox5o and monthly precipitation averages were calculated for each of these. The same averaging was done on satellite-based precipitation estimates. A precipitation score index was defined using the model precipitation and the satellite estimates and used to evaluate the precipitation skill of MM5 for each region. The model precipitation data was also correlated with the satellite estimates in different regions of South America in order to evaluate if the precipitation patterns were correctly reproduced by the model using the two schemes. Our results show that, in general, Grell scheme represented the precipitation patterns correctly, specially in the equatorial region (10oS-10oN), although it over-estimated rainfall in this region during March 2000. Kuo scheme tends to under-estimate over the tropical region and does not represent adequately the precipitation patterns.

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