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Table 6 Tropical budgets

From: DYAMOND: the DYnamics of the Atmospheric general circulation Modeled On Non-hydrostatic Domains

Model

P mm d1

PW mm

Ithermal W m−2

Isolar W m−2

ARPEGE-NH

4.25

40.9

−265.4

319.3

FV3

3.80

38.7

−269.0

307.6

GEOS

n/a

39.5

−269.2

303.1

ICON

3.65

38.8

−264.1

295.2

IFS

3.75

35.4

−268.4

312.2

MPAS

3.59

37.1

−265.9

327.3

NICAM

3.81

41.5

−259.2

327.0

SAM

4.07

37.3

−272.3

311.7

UM

4.02

38.1

−267.4

309.0

Observed

3.50

39.5

−259.6

306.4

Mean

3.81

38.3

−266.8

312.5

Stddev

0.16

1.7

2.5

10.4

  1. Tropically (latitudes within 30 of the Equator) averaged quantities related to the global hydrological cycle. For the observations, the GSMaP (v7) retrieval is used for precipitation, P; precipitable water, PW, is calculated only over the ocean for which observational estimates are taken from GMI. Top-of-atmosphere net solar, Isolar, and thermal infrared Ithermal irradiances are taken from the CERES SYN1deg daily Terra and Aqua product. For precipitation and precipitable water, ARPEGE-NH is excluded from the calculation of the multi-model mean