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Contrasting seasonal changes in total and intense precipitation in the European Alps from 1903 to 2010

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Abstract. Changes of precipitation over the European Alps are investigated with the regional climate model MAR applied with a 7-km resolution over the period 1903–2010 using the reanalysis ERA-20C as forcing. A comparison with several observational datasets demonstrates that the model is able to reproduce the climatology as well as both the inter-annual variability and the seasonal cycle of precipitation over the European Alps. The relatively high resolution allows to estimate precipitation at high elevations. The vertical gradient of precipitation simulated by MAR over the European Alps reaches 33 % km−1 (1.21 mm.day−1.km−1) in summer and 38 % km−1 (1.15 mm.day−1.km−1) in winter, on average over 1971–2008 and shows a large spatial variability. A significant (p-value 

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hal-02916895 , version 1 (18-08-2020)

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Martin Menegoz, Evgenia Valla, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Juliette Blanchet, Julien Beaumet, et al.. Contrasting seasonal changes in total and intense precipitation in the European Alps from 1903 to 2010. 2020. ⟨hal-02916895⟩
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