caa a22 4500 445800437 CHVBK 20180317145139.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00704-011-0421-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00704-011-0421-0 The coupling of cloud base height and surface fluxes: a transferability intercomparison [Elektronische Daten] [Emiola Gbobaniyi, Babatunde Abiodun, Mark Tadross, Bruce Hewitson, William Gutowski] This paper presents an evaluation of the simulated coupling between cloud base height (CBH) and surface fluxes over selected Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP) reference stations by five regional climate models as part of a transferability intercomparison experiment. The model results are compared with station data obtained during the first phase of the CEOP measuring campaigns. The models gave a credible simulation of both diurnal and seasonal cycles of cloud base height and surface variables over the stations. However, the models exhibited some difficulty in reproducing the diurnal and seasonal temperatures over the tropical stations. The study used principal component analysis to show that three factors account for most of the variability in the observed and simulated data and to investigate the coupling between cloud base height and surface fluxes in the data. In the observations, CBH is well coupled with the surface fluxes over Cabauw, Bondville, Lamont, and Berms, but coupled only with temperature over Lindenberg and Tongyu. All models but GEMLAM simulate substantial coupling between CBH and surface fluxes at all stations; GEMLAM does not couple CBH with surface fluxes, but with surface temperature and specific humidity. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Gbobaniyi Emiola Climate System Analysis Group, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa aut Abiodun Babatunde Climate System Analysis Group, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa aut Tadross Mark Climate System Analysis Group, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa aut Hewitson Bruce Climate System Analysis Group, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa aut Gutowski William Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA aut Theoretical and Applied Climatology Springer Vienna 106/1-2(2011-11-01), 189-210 0177-798X 106:1-2<189 2011 106 704 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-011-0421-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-011-0421-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gbobaniyi Emiola Climate System Analysis Group, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Abiodun Babatunde Climate System Analysis Group, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tadross Mark Climate System Analysis Group, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hewitson Bruce Climate System Analysis Group, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gutowski William Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theoretical and Applied Climatology Springer Vienna 106/1-2(2011-11-01), 189-210 0177-798X 106:1-2<189 2011 106 704 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer