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Sensitivity analysis with the regional climate model COSMO-CLM over the CORDEX-MENA domain

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The results of a sensitivity work based on ERA-Interim driven COSMO-CLM simulations over the Middle East-North Africa (CORDEX-MENA) domain are presented. All simulations were performed at 0.44° spatial resolution. The purpose of this study was to ascertain model performances with respect to changes in physical and tuning parameters which are mainly related to surface, convection, radiation and cloud parameterizations. Evaluation was performed for the whole CORDEX-MENA region and six sub-regions, comparing a set of 26 COSMO-CLM runs against a combination of available ground observations, satellite products and reanalysis data to assess temperature, precipitation, cloud cover and mean sea level pressure. The model proved to be very sensitive to changes in physical parameters. The optimized configuration allows COSMO-CLM to improve the simulated main climate features of this area. Its main characteristics consist in the new parameterization of albedo, based on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer data, and the new parameterization of aerosol, based on NASA-GISS AOD distributions. When applying this configuration, Mean Absolute Error values for the considered variables are as follows: about 1.2 °C for temperature, about 15 mm/month for precipitation, about 9 % for total cloud cover, and about 0.6 hPa for mean sea level pressure.

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The authors would like to thank Andreas Will (TU Cottbus) for all the suggestions provided and Mansour Almazroui (King Abdulaziz University) for the valuable information provided. Simon Krichak (University of Tel Aviv) is also acknowledged for the useful discussions. UDEL Air Temperature and Precipitation data are provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, Boulder (Colorado, USA) from their Web site at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/. All figures presented in this paper were obtained with CLIME, a special purpose GIS software integrated in ESRI ArcGIS Desktop 10.X, developed at CMCC (ISC Division) in order to evaluate multiple climate features easily and study climate changes over specific geographical domains with their related effects on the environment, including impacts on soil.

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Supplementary material. The following supporting information is available as part of the online article:Fig. S1 The CORDEX-MENA domain (27 W–76E, 7S–45 N) with surface height (m) and the eleven evaluation regions defined in Almazroui (2015). Fig. S2 (a-b) Taylor diagrams of 2-meter temperature (1980–1984) for the eleven subdomains. The CRU dataset is used as a reference field. Fig. S3 (a-b) Monthly time series of 2-meter temperature (°C) (1980–1984) for the eleven subdomains. Fig. S4 (a-b) Taylor diagrams of total precipitation (1980–1984) for the eleven subdomains. The CRU dataset is used as a reference field. Fig. S5 (a-b) Monthly time series of total precipitation (mm/month) (1980–1984) for the eleven subdomains. Fig. S6 (a-b) Monthly time series of total cloud cover (%) (1980–1984) for the eleven subdomains. Fig. S7 (a-b) Monthly time series of mean sea level pressure (hPa) (1980–1984) for the eleven subdomains Supplementary material 1 (PDF 4726 kb)

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Bucchignani, E., Cattaneo, L., Panitz, HJ. et al. Sensitivity analysis with the regional climate model COSMO-CLM over the CORDEX-MENA domain. Meteorol Atmos Phys 128, 73–95 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-015-0403-3

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