Articles | Volume 9, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3393-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3393-2016
Model evaluation paper
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21 Sep 2016
Model evaluation paper |  | 21 Sep 2016

Towards European-scale convection-resolving climate simulations with GPUs: a study with COSMO 4.19

David Leutwyler, Oliver Fuhrer, Xavier Lapillonne, Daniel Lüthi, and Christoph Schär

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The representation of moist convection (thunderstorms and rain showers) in climate models represents a major challenge, as this process is usually approximated due to the lack of appropriate computational resolution. Climate simulations using horizontal resolution of O(1 km) allow one to explicitly resolve deep convection and thus allow for an improved representation of the water cycle. We present a set of such simulations covering the European scale using a climate model enabled for GPUs.