Sentences with phrase «rainfall along the slopes»
The model has difficulty with nighttime rainfall along the slopes, over the Gulf of California, and over Arizona.
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In particular, the model captures the diurnal amplitude and phase, with heavier rainfall at high elevations along the Sierra Madre Occidental in the early afternoon that shifts to lower elevations along the west slopes in the evening.
A comparison to observations (gauge and radar data) shows that the high - resolution (3 km) model generates better rainfall distributions on time scales from monthly to hourly than the coarse - resolution (9 km) model, especially along the west slopes of the Sierra Madre Occidental.