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Tobias Selz
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Lucas Fischer
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George C. Craig

atmosphere’s scale-dependence behavior appropriately, shortcomings in the numerics or parameterizations are likely. In the case of kinetic energy, the evaluation of scaling exponents has provided valuable insights into model performance ( Skamarock 2004 ; Hamilton et al. 2008 ; Bierdel et al. 2012 ; Fang and Kuo 2015 ). For water vapor, Schemann et al. (2013) investigated the scaling behaviors of a GCM, an NWP model, and a large-eddy simulation (LES) and the implication for cloud parameterizations

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Julian F. Quinting
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Christian M. Grams

regression and the limitations of this approach. In section 4 we evaluate the performance of the models during Northern Hemisphere winter and demonstrate their applicability to an operational ECMWF ensemble forecast of a WCB event during January 2011. The study ends with concluding remarks and an outlook in section 5 . 2. Data a. Predictor dataset The predictor selection as well as the development and evaluation of the logistic regression models is based on ECMWF’s interim reanalysis data (ERA

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Kirstin Kober
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George C. Craig

the perturbation method is applicable in any atmospheric model that allows for calculation of the relevant physical process information. The observational data used to evaluate the forecasts and the selected case studies in which the parameterization is tested will be introduced briefly as well as the analysis strategy for the suggested method. a. Physically based stochastic perturbations in the boundary layer We propose a concept of process-based model error representation in terms of a

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Jan Wandel
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Julian F. Quinting
, and
Christian M. Grams

of forecast errors and uncertainties from small to large scales ( Grams et al. 2018 ). On the medium range, the representation of WCBs in NWP models was first evaluated by Madonna et al. (2015) for three winter periods [December–February (DJF)] in the operational high resolution deterministic forecast of the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) model. They used a novel feature-based verification technique that was originally developed to verify precipitation forecasts ( Wernli et al. 2008

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Christian Barthlott
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Corinna Hoose

precipitation to changes in the aerosol content and thermodynamical conditions of the atmosphere. Nevertheless, we have evaluated the respective reference runs at least in a qualitative way to ensure that the COSMO model simulates the main weather characteristics on the analyzed days reasonably well. The simulated 24-h precipitation amount of the reference runs with continental CCN displayed in Fig. 5 show good agreement with observations ( Fig. 4 ) for all days. Not only the convective or stratiform

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