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Evaluation of SP-CAM and SP-CCSM in capturing the extremes of summer monsoon rainfall over Indian region

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The simulation of the Asian monsoon rainfall and its extreme events with high fidelity remains a challenge even for the present day state-of-the-art models with conventional treatment of convection. A multi-scale approach vis-à-vis the super-parameterization appears to overcome the uncertainty of convective parameterization and thereby improve models ability to simulate rainfall. In this study, performance of super-parameterized community climate system model’s atmospheric only (SPCAM) forced with observed SST and coupled (SPCCSM) versions have been evaluated to capture Indian summer monsoon rainfall characteristics. Analyses show that, simulation of rainfall and its extremes are better represented in the atmospheric model (SPCAM) over the Indian landmass. This is largely because of better representation of convection in the uncoupled version. It is also observed that 2–10 day synoptic mode of the summer monsoon has a large variance over Indian region which may be broadly responsible for extreme events, and SPCAM captures this synoptic variability reasonably well. Our study also indicates that models may have poor moisture holding capacity. This problem is more prominent in SPCCSM.

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Acknowledgements

The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology is fully funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, New Delhi. The authors also thankful to Dr. Marat Khairoutdinov for the development of SP frame work and also providing the data and his suggestions. Authors would like to thank ‘Pratyush’ HPC support for necessary help.

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  1. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune, 411 008, India

    Tanmoy Goswami, R Phani Murali Krishna & Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay

  2. Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, 411 007, India

    Tanmoy Goswami

  3. Irreversible Climate Change Research Center (IRCC), Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, South Korea

    Bidyut Bikash Goswami

  4. New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), PO Box 129 188, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    R Phani Murali Krishna

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Goswami, T., Goswami, B.B., Krishna, R.P.M. et al. Evaluation of SP-CAM and SP-CCSM in capturing the extremes of summer monsoon rainfall over Indian region. J Earth Syst Sci 129, 116 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-020-1381-5

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