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Data from Goddard cumulus ensemble model experiment are used to study temporal and spatial scale dependence of tropical rainfall separation analysis based on cloud budget during Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE). The analysis shows that the calculations of model domain mean or time-mean grid-scale mean simulation data overestimate the rain rates of the two rainfall types associated with net condensation but they severely underestimate the rain rate of the rainfall type associated with net evaporation and hydrometeor convergence.
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Li, X., Shen, X. Temporal and spatial scale dependence of precipitation analysis over the tropical deep convective regime. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 29, 1390–1394 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-012-1269-7
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