How well is Rossby wave activity represented in the PRIMAVERA coupled simulations?

Ghinassi, Paolo; Fabiano, Federico; Corti, Susanna

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-209-2022

Articles | Volume 3, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-209-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-209-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 3, issue 1

Research article

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15 Feb 2022

Research article |

| 15 Feb 2022

How well is Rossby wave activity represented in the PRIMAVERA coupled simulations?

Paolo Ghinassi, Federico Fabiano, and Susanna Corti

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-209-2022-supplement

Model code and software

fedef17/WRtool: WRtool 2.1 (v2.1) F. Fabiano and I. Mavilia https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4590985

Short summary

In this work we examine the ability of global climate models in representing the atmospheric circulation in the upper troposphere, focusing on the eventual benefits of an increased horizontal resolution. Our results confirm that a higher horizontal resolution has a positive impact, especially in those models in which the resolution is increased in both the atmosphere and the ocean, whereas when the resolution is increased only in the atmosphere no substantial improvements are found.