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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1471-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1471-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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04 Feb 2019
Research article |
| 04 Feb 2019
| 04 Feb 2019
Impact of humidity biases on light precipitation occurrence: observations versus simulations
Sophie Bastin
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
LATMOS/IPSL, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne
Université, CNRS, Guyancourt, France
Philippe Drobinski
LMD/IPSL, Ecole Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, ENS, CNRS,
Palaiseau, France
Marjolaine Chiriaco
LATMOS/IPSL, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne
Université, CNRS, Guyancourt, France
Olivier Bock
IPGP, IGN, ENSG, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris
Cité, UMR7154 CNRS, Paris, France
Romain Roehrig
CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Meteo-France, CNRS, Toulouse,
France
Clemente Gallardo
UCLM, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales, Toledo, Spain
Dario Conte
AEMET, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, Madrid, Spain
Marta Domínguez Alonso
UCLM, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales, Toledo, Spain
AEMET, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, Madrid, Spain
Laurent Li
LMD/IPSL, Ecole Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, ENS, CNRS,
Palaiseau, France
Piero Lionello
CMCC, Euro Mediterranean Center on Climage Change, 73100 Lecce,
Italy
DiSTeBA, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Ana C. Parracho
LATMOS/IPSL, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne
Université, CNRS, Guyancourt, France
IPGP, IGN, ENSG, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris
Cité, UMR7154 CNRS, Paris, France
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This paper uses colocated observations of temperature, precipitation and humidity to investigate the triggering of precipitation. It shows that there is a critical value of humidity above which precipitation picks up. This critical value depends on T and varies spatially. It also analyses how this dependency is reproduced in regional climate simulations over Europe. Models with too little and too light precipitation have both lower critical value of humidity and higher probability to exceed it.
This paper uses colocated observations of temperature, precipitation and humidity to investigate...
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