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Will, A., M. Baldauf, B. Rockel, A. Seifert, “Physics and<br />
Dynamics of the COSMO-CLM”, Meteorol. Z.,<br />
submitted<br />
Figure 3. Monthly mean of the diurnal cycle of the<br />
2m temperature in July 2007 as simulated with CCLM<br />
for the gridpoint next to Obervellach (808m ASL) in<br />
the Hohe Tauern region. Solid: 10 km resolution;<br />
dashed: 3 km; dash-dotted: 1 km; dotted: observation.<br />
The height difference between the four members is<br />
taken into account using a constant lapse rate of 6.5K<br />
per km.<br />
overestimated also in the 1 km domain.<br />
The diurnal cycle of precipitation shows that at the 10 km<br />
resolution there are two maxima of precipitation, one in the<br />
morning around 8 UTC, one in the late evening around<br />
22 UTC. The two other resolutions have the first maximum<br />
two to three hours later while the second maximum occurs<br />
one hour earlier. The intensity is captured well at all<br />
resolutions.<br />
4. Conclusions so far<br />
The preliminary results show that increased model<br />
resolution does not necessarily mitigate model biases (after<br />
altitude correction) but yield more realistic spatial patterns<br />
and partially improve the diurnal cycle. Further, more<br />
systematic evaluation results will be presented..<br />
Acknowledgements<br />
The authors would like to thank the University Information<br />
Service of the University of Graz for the provision of the<br />
computing infrastructure, the Central Institute for<br />
Meteorology and Geodynamics and the avalanche warning<br />
services of Tyrol, Salzburg and Carinthia for providing<br />
observation data. This study is part of the project NHCM-1<br />
(P19619-N10) funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).<br />
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