The American monsoon system in HadGEM3 and UKESM1

García-Franco, Jorge L.; Gray, Lesley J.; Osprey, Scott

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-349-2020

Articles | Volume 1, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-349-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-349-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 1, issue 2

Research article

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21 Jul 2020

Research article |

| 21 Jul 2020

The American monsoon system in HadGEM3 and UKESM1

Jorge L. García-Franco, Lesley J. Gray, and Scott Osprey

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RC1: 'Anonymous review of Garcia-Franco et al., submitted to Weather & Climate Dynamics', Anonymous Referee #1, 28 Apr 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Reviewer 1', Jorge Luis Garcia-Franco, 03 Jun 2020
RC2: 'Review_Comments_David_Adams', David Adams, 02 May 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to Reviewer 2: David Adams', Jorge Luis Garcia-Franco, 03 Jun 2020

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AR by Jorge Luis Garcia-Franco on behalf of the Authors (05 Jun 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (13 Jun 2020) by Daniela Domeisen

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (05 Jul 2020)

RR by David Adams (06 Jul 2020)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (07 Jul 2020) by Daniela Domeisen

Short summary

The American monsoon system is the main source of rainfall for the subtropical Americas and an important element of Latin American agriculture. Here we use state-of-the-art climate models from the UK Met Office in different configurations to analyse the performance of these models in the American monsoon. Resolution is found to be a key factor to improve monsoon representation, whereas integrated chemistry does not improve the simulated monsoon rainfall.