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Snow Cover Assessment with Regional Climate Model - Problems and Results

Authors : Hristo Chervenkov, Todor Todorov, Kiril Slavov

Published in: Large-Scale Scientific Computing

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Climate modelling, either global or regional, is usually treated as a typical large-scale scientific computational problem. The regional climate model RegCM, well-known within the meteorological community, is applied in the study to estimate quantitatively the snow water equivalent, which is the most consistent snow cover parameter. Multiple runs for a time window of 14 consecutive winters with different model configurations, in particular with various initial and boundary conditions, have been performed, in an attempt to obtain most adequate representation of the real snow cover. The results are compared with stations’ measurements from the network of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology. Generally all runs yield similar results, where the overall (i.e. over the whole time span) biases are acceptable, but, however, with large discrepancies in the day-by-day comparisons, which is typical for climate modelling studies.

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Metadata
Title
Snow Cover Assessment with Regional Climate Model - Problems and Results
Authors
Hristo Chervenkov
Todor Todorov
Kiril Slavov
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Large-Scale Scientific Computing

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-26519-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-26520-9

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26520-9_36

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