Stochastic downscaling of precipitation in complex orography:  a simple method to reproduce a realistic fine-scale climatology

Terzago, Silvia; Palazzi, Elisa; von Hardenberg, Jost

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2825-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2825-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2825-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 11

Research article

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02 Nov 2018

Research article |

| 02 Nov 2018

Stochastic downscaling of precipitation in complex orography: a simple method to reproduce a realistic fine-scale climatology

Silvia Terzago, Elisa Palazzi, and Jost von Hardenberg

Model code and software

RainFARM J. von Hardenberg https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1240477

Short summary

This study proposes a modification to a stochastic downscaling method for precipitation, RainFARM, to improve the representation of the statistics of the daily precipitation at fine scales (1 km) in mountain areas. This method has been demonstrated in the Alps and it has been found to reconstruct small-scale precipitation distribution. It can be employed in a number of applications, including the analysis of extreme events and their statistics and hydrometeorological hazards.