Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Resolving Sahelian thunderstorms improves mid-latitude weather forecasts

  • Gregor Pante,
  • Peter Knippertz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11081-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Thunderstorms are commonly represented through simplified parametrizations in weather and climate models. Here it is shown that an increase in model resolution over West Africa, enabling the explicit modeling of Sahelian convective systems, can improve 5–8 day tropical and mid-latitude weather forecasts.