726: WASCAL - Regionale Klimasimulationen Westafrika

Principal investigator: Ilse Hamann

Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (Community project)

Project abstract

Report 1/2011 to 12/2011
Report 1/2012 to 12/2012
Report 1/2013 to 12/2013
Report 1/2015 to 12/2015
Report 1/2016 to 12/2016
Report 1/2017 to 12/2017

Publications

• The WASCAL high-resolution regional climate simulation ensemble for West Africa: concept, dissemination, assessment Dominikus Heinzeller1, Diarra Dieng1,2, Gerhard Smiatek1, Christiana Olusegun1, Cornelia Klein3, Ilse Hamann4, Seyni Salack5, and Harald Kunstmann1,2 1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 2University of Augsburg, Institute of Geography, Augsburg, Germany 3Natural Environment Research Council, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom 4German Climate Computing Center, Hamburg, Germany 5WASCAL Competence Center, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Received: 21 Aug 2017 – Accepted for review: 18 Sep 2017 – Discussion started: 22 Sep 2017 https://www.earth-syst-sci-data-discuss.net/essd-2017-93/
• Heinzeller D, MG Duda, H Kunstmann (2016): Towards convection-resolving, global atmospheric simulations with the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) v3.1: an extreme scaling experiment, Geoscientific Model Development, 9, pp. 77-110, January 2016; DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-77-2016
• Arnault, J., Knoche, R.., Hui, J., Kunstmann, H. (2015): Evapotranspiration tagging and atmospheric water budget analysis with WRF: A precipitation recycling study for West Africa. Submitted to Water Resour. Res.
• Bliefernicht, J., Kunstmann, H., Hingerl, L., Rummler, T., Andersen, S., Mauder, M., Steinbrecher, R., Frieß, R., Gochis, D., Gessner, U., Quansah, E., Awotuse, A., Neidl, F., Jahn, C., Boubacar, B. (2013): Field and simulation experiments for investigating regional land-atmosphere interactions in West Africa: Experimental set-up and first results. IAHS-AISH, 359, 226-232
• Heinzeller, D., Duda, M.G., Kunstmann, H. (2015): Towards convection-resolving, global atmospheric simulations with the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS): an extreme scaling experiment. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, 8, 1-75
• Klein, C., Heinzeller, D., Bliefernicht, J., Kunstmann, H. (2015): Variability of West African monsoon patterns generated by a WRF multi-physics ensemble, Climate Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s00382-015-2505-5
• Siegmund, S., Bliefernicht, J., Laux, P., Kunstmann, H. (2015): Towards a Seasonal Precipitation Prediction System for West Africa: Performance of CFSv2 and High Resolution Dynamical Downscaling. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, DOI 10.1002/2014JD022692
• Arnault, J., Wagner, S., Rummler, T., Fersch, B., Bliefernicht, J., Andresen, S., Kunstmann, H. (2015): Role of runoff-infiltration partitioning and resolved overland flow on land-atmosphere feedbacks: A case-study with the WRF-Hydro coupled modeling system for West Africa. Submitted to J. Hydrometeor