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The UK Met Office has previously conducted convection-permitting climate simulations over the southern UK (Kendon et al. in Nat Clim Change 4:570–576, 2014). The southern UK simulations have been followed up by a new set of northern UK simulations using the same model configuration. Here we present the mean and extreme precipitation projections from these new simulations. Relative to the southern UK, the northern UK projections show a greater summertime increase of return levels and extreme precipitation intensity in both 1.5km convection-permitting and 12km convection-parameterised simulations, but this increase is against a backdrop of large decreases in summertime mean precipitation and precipitation frequency. Similar to the southern UK, projected change is model resolution dependent and the convection-permitting simulation projects a larger intensification. For winter, return level increases are somewhat lower than for the southern UK. Analysis of model biases highlight challenges in simulating the diurnal cycle over high terrain, sensitivity to domain size and driving-GCM biases, and quality issues of radar precipitation observations, which are relevant to the wider regional climate modelling community.
Author(s): Chan SC, Kahana R, Kendon EJ, Fowler HJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Climate Dynamics
Year: 2018
Volume: 51
Issue: 9-10
Pages: 3559-3577
Print publication date: 01/11/2018
Online publication date: 14/03/2018
Acceptance date: 02/01/2018
Date deposited: 14/03/2018
ISSN (print): 0930-7575
ISSN (electronic): 1432-0894
Publisher: Springer
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4096-4
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-018-4096-4
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