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Gravel parameterization scheme and verification using BCC_CSM

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The soil in China contains an abundance of gravels, but it is poorly described in land surface models. To solve this problem, the Beijing Climate Center Atmosphere–Vegetation Interaction Model (BCC_AVIM), which is a land surface model with the gravel parameterization, is coupled to the Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model (BCC_CSM). The simulation ability of BCC_CSM for China using the gravel parameterization is evaluated by comparing the simulation results using default and new schemes with the observed data. The results show that the annual average surface temperature simulated with the new schemes is more consistent with the observation in terms of spatial distribution, and the simulation results are significantly improved, especially in summer. From the perspective of the area-averaged variables, more precipitation simulated using the default schemes is improved except for summer. The high-level and low-level wind fields simulated by BCC_CSM significantly improve the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In general, this gravel parameterization is more suitable for areas with high gravel content, and it improves the simulation performance of BCC_CSM in some areas of China.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to the National Climate Center for providing the BCC model in Tianhe. We thank Nanjing Hurricane Translation for reviewing the English language quality of this paper.

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The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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No code was developed in the current study.

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This work was supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) program (Grant No. 2019QZKK0103) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41975007, 91837208).

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  1. School of Atmospheric Sciences, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, 610225, China

    Yue Xu, Shihua Lyu, Shaobo Zhang & Yigang Liu

  2. Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China

    Shihua Lyu

  3. Land-Atmosphere Interaction and its Climatic Effects Group, State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Yaoming Ma

  4. College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Yaoming Ma

  5. College of Atmospheric Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China

    Yaoming Ma

  6. Baotou Meteorological Administration, Baotou, 014030, China

    Cuili Ma

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Xu, Y., Lyu, S., Ma, Y. et al. Gravel parameterization scheme and verification using BCC_CSM. Theor Appl Climatol 148, 1647–1661 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-022-04015-6

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