{"id":225837,"date":"2025-11-25T01:26:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/higher-resolution-climate-models-show-41-increase-in-daily-extreme-land-precipitation-by-2100"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:26:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:26:56","slug":"higher-resolution-climate-models-show-41-increase-in-daily-extreme-land-precipitation-by-2100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/higher-resolution-climate-models-show-41-increase-in-daily-extreme-land-precipitation-by-2100","title":{"rendered":"Higher resolution climate models show 41% increase in daily extreme land precipitation by 2100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/higher-resolution-climate-models-show-41-increase-in-daily-extreme-land-precipitation-by-2100.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite continuous efforts to evaluate and predict changes in Earth\u2019s climate, most models still struggle to accurately simulate extreme precipitation events. Models like the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phases 5 and 6 (CMIP5 and CMIP6) use fairly coarse resolution due to computing constraints, making it a little easier, faster and less expensive to run simulations, while still providing some degree of accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>However, a new study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-025-01859-1\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Geoscience<\/i>, is shedding light on some of the features missed by these coarser resolution models.<\/p>\n<p>The team involved in the study developed a higher resolution model that breaks up the atmosphere into 10\u201325 km (6\u201315.5 mile) squares for analysis, instead of 100 km (62 mile) squares. Their high-resolution model is based on the Community Earth System Model v.1.3 (CESM-HR), which looks at the time period between 1920\u20132100. These results are then compared with the low-resolution version\u2019s (CESM-LR) results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite continuous efforts to evaluate and predict changes in Earth\u2019s climate, most models still struggle to accurately simulate extreme precipitation events. Models like the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phases 5 and 6 (CMIP5 and CMIP6) use fairly coarse resolution due to computing constraints, making it a little easier, faster and less expensive to run simulations, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}