Advances in Geosciences www.adv-geosci.net 1680-7340 1680-7359 16 Observation, Prediction and Verification of Precipitation (EGU Session 2007) 2008 10.5194/adgeo-16-97-2008 http://www.adv-geosci.net/16/97/2008/ http://www.adv-geosci.net/16/97/2008/adgeo-16-97-2008.html http://www.adv-geosci.net/16/97/2008/adgeo-16-97-2008.pdf 97 107 2008-04-09 Estimation of the systematic error of precipitation and humidity in the MM5 model S. Ivanov svvivo@te.net.ua C. Simmer J. Palamarchuk S. Bachner Odessa State Environmental University, Ukraine Meteorological Institute University Bonn, Germany To comprehensively diagnose model capabilities in simulating atmospheric flow including the relevant microphysical processes, the main prognostic fields of the MM5 model are compared with ERA40 reanalysis data. This approach allows to identify and compare meaningful features of model parameterization schemes and to quantify model errors. 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