Summary: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. (2010)
Examination of long-wave radiative bias in general circulation
models over North Africa during May­July
Richard P. Allana*, Margaret J. Woodageb, Sean F. Miltonc,
Malcolm E. Brooksc
and James M. Haywoodc,d
aDepartment of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK
bEnvironmental Systems Science Centre, University of Reading, UK
c
Met Office, Exeter, UK
dCollege of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, UK
*Correspondence to: R. P. Allan, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6BB, UK.
E-mail: r.p.allan@reading.ac.uk
The contributions of Sean Milton, Malcolm Brooks and James Haywood of Met Office, Exeter, were prepared as part of their
official duties as employees of the UK Government. They are published with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's
Stationary Office and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.
Satellite data are used to quantify and examine the bias in the outgoing long-wave
(LW) radiation over North Africa during May­July simulated by a range of climate
models and the Met Office global numerical weather prediction (NWP) model.
Simulations from an ensemble-mean of multiple climate models overestimate

Source: Allan, Richard P. - Department of Meteorology, University of Reading

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