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