caa a22 4500 605471428 CHVBK 20210128100333.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00382-014-2452-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00382-014-2452-6 Evaluation of a high-resolution historical simulation over China: climatology and extremes [Elektronische Daten] [Entao Yu, Jianqi Sun, Huopo Chen, Weiling Xiang] China faces an increasing challenge in water resources in the coming decades; thus high-confidence climate projection is of particular importance for the country's future. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of a long high-resolution continuous simulation over China based on multiple observations and the corresponding historical simulation. The simulation is completed using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model driven by the Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate version 5 (MIROC5) in the context of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5. The results show that both MIROC5 and WRF can capture the distribution and variability of temperature over China, whereas WRF shows improvements, particularly for simulation of regional features. Compared with MIROC5, WRF can reproduce the spatial distribution, annual cycle, probability distribution, and seasonal evolution of the precipitation over mainland China and the sub-regions with better performance. The trend is of fundamental importance in the future projection estimations, and WRF shows better skill in simulating the annual mean precipitation trend. However, there is overestimation of precipitation in Southeast China while negative one in the middle latitude of China in WRF simulation, which can be traced back to model bias in atmospheric circulation and water vapor transportation in these regions. Several extreme climate indices are selected to further assess the model's performance in simulating climate extremes, WRF can well reproduce the main features with better model skill compared with MIROC5. The better performance of WRF indicates the necessity of the dynamical downscaling technique and the robustness of regional climate simulation in future regional climate projectionover China. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 Model evaluation nationallicence Regional climate models nationallicence China nationallicence Climatology and extremes nationallicence Yu Entao Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029, Beijing, China aut Sun Jianqi Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029, Beijing, China aut Chen Huopo Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029, Beijing, China aut Xiang Weiling State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029, Beijing, China aut Climate Dynamics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 45/7-8(2015-10-01), 2013-2031 0930-7575 45:7-8<2013 2015 45 382 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2452-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2452-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yu Entao Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sun Jianqi Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chen Huopo Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Xiang Weiling State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climate Dynamics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 45/7-8(2015-10-01), 2013-2031 0930-7575 45:7-8<2013 2015 45 382