caa a22 4500 605473250 CHVBK 20210128100342.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00382-014-2125-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00382-014-2125-5 High-resolution rainfall variability simulated by the WRF RCM: application to eastern France [Elektronische Daten] [Romain Marteau, Yves Richard, Benjamin Pohl, Carmela Smith, Thierry Castel] The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, driven laterally by ERA-Interim reanalyses, is used here to downscale rainfall, at relatively high resolution (~8km) over Burgundy (eastern France), during the period 1989-2009. Regional simulations are compared to the Météo-France Station Network (MFSN; 127 daily rain-gauge records), at various temporal scales, including interannual variability, the annual cycle, and weather types. Results show that the spatial distribution of WRF-simulated rainfall climatology is consistent with MFSN observation data, but WRF tends to overestimate annual rainfall by ~+15%. At the interannual scale, WRF also performs very well (r~0.8), despite almost constant, systematic overestimation. Only the average annual rainfall cycle is not accurately reproduced by WRF (r~0.5), with rainfall overestimation in spring and summer, when convective rainfall prevails. During the winter season (October-March), when stratiform rainfall is prevalent, WRF performs better. Despite the biases for summertime convective events, these results suggest that high-resolution WRF simulations could successfully be used to document present and future climate variability at a regional scale. Nevertheless, because of overestimated convective rainfall, WRF-simulated rainfall should probably not be used directly to feed impact models, especially during the vegetative summer period. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 WRF regional climate model nationallicence Rainfall nationallicence Regression-kriging nationallicence Burgundy nationallicence Interannual variability nationallicence Weather types nationallicence Marteau Romain Faculté des Sciences Gabriel, Centre de Recherches de Climatologie, UMR 6282 Biogéosciences, CNRS/Université de Bourgogne, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21000, Dijon, France aut Richard Yves Faculté des Sciences Gabriel, Centre de Recherches de Climatologie, UMR 6282 Biogéosciences, CNRS/Université de Bourgogne, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21000, Dijon, France aut Pohl Benjamin Faculté des Sciences Gabriel, Centre de Recherches de Climatologie, UMR 6282 Biogéosciences, CNRS/Université de Bourgogne, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21000, Dijon, France aut Smith Carmela UFR SVTE, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France aut Castel Thierry Faculté des Sciences Gabriel, Centre de Recherches de Climatologie, UMR 6282 Biogéosciences, CNRS/Université de Bourgogne, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21000, Dijon, France aut Climate Dynamics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 44/3-4(2015-02-01), 1093-1107 0930-7575 44:3-4<1093 2015 44 382 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2125-5 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/s00382-014-2125-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Marteau Romain Faculté des Sciences Gabriel, Centre de Recherches de Climatologie, UMR 6282 Biogéosciences, CNRS/Université de Bourgogne, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21000, Dijon, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Richard Yves Faculté des Sciences Gabriel, Centre de Recherches de Climatologie, UMR 6282 Biogéosciences, CNRS/Université de Bourgogne, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21000, Dijon, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pohl Benjamin Faculté des Sciences Gabriel, Centre de Recherches de Climatologie, UMR 6282 Biogéosciences, CNRS/Université de Bourgogne, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21000, Dijon, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Smith Carmela UFR SVTE, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Castel Thierry Faculté des Sciences Gabriel, Centre de Recherches de Climatologie, UMR 6282 Biogéosciences, CNRS/Université de Bourgogne, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21000, Dijon, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climate Dynamics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 44/3-4(2015-02-01), 1093-1107 0930-7575 44:3-4<1093 2015 44 382