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Article Dans Une Revue Climate Dynamics Année : 2018

Mediterranean extreme precipitation: a multi-model assessment

Leone Cavicchia
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Enrico Scoccimarro
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Silvio Gualdi
Paola Marson
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Bodo Ahrens
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Dario Conte
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Alessandro Dell'Aquila
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Vladimir Djurdjevic
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Clotilde Dubois
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Clemente Gallardo
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Laurent Li
Paolo Oddo
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Antonella Sanna
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Csaba Torma
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Résumé

Exploiting the added value of the ensemble of high-resolution model simulations provided by the Med-CORDEX coordinated initiative, an updated assessment of Mediterranean extreme precipitation events as represented in different observational, reanalysis and modelling datasets is presented. A spatiotemporal characterisation of the long-term statistics of extreme precipitation is performed, using a number of different diagnostic indices. Employing a novel approach based on the timing of extreme precipitation events a number of physically consistent subregions are defined. The comparison of different diagnostics over the Mediterranean domain and physically homogeneous sub-domains is presented and discussed, focussing on the relative impact of several model configuration features (resolution, coupling, physical parameterisations) on the performance in reproducing extreme precipitation events. It is found that the agreement between the observed and modelled long-term statistics of extreme precipitation is more sensitive to the model physics, in particular convective parameterisation, than to other model configurations such as resolution and coupling.
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hal-03658670 , version 1 (07-06-2022)

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Leone Cavicchia, Enrico Scoccimarro, Silvio Gualdi, Paola Marson, Bodo Ahrens, et al.. Mediterranean extreme precipitation: a multi-model assessment. Climate Dynamics, 2018, 51, pp.901-913. ⟨10.1007/s00382-016-3245-x⟩. ⟨hal-03658670⟩
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