Sensitivity Study on the Influence of Parameterization Schemes in WRF_ARW Model on Short- and Medium-Range Precipitation Forecasts in the Central Andes of Peru

Table 4

Statistics of the point verification of precipitation forecast for the 3 simulated domains and 6 combinations of parametrizations, including the control experiment, average of all the stations considered.

WRF_DOM	Statistics	Parametrizations
		CTR	C_BMJ	C_GRELL3	MP_MR	MP_LP	BL_MYJ
1: 18 km	B (mm/day)	7.35	12.08	6.63	6.82	7.97	8.73
	RMSE (mm/day)	13.59	17.08	12.41	12.49	14.27	14.03
	MAE (mm/day)	10.17	13.84	9.37	9.63	10.62	11.18
2: 6 km	B (mm/day)	6.01	6.71	5.78	4.66	6.06	6.19
	RMSE (mm/day)	12.16	11.67	11.76	10.62	12.35	12.28
	MAE (mm/day)	9.09	9.23	8.92	8.07	9.18	9.31
3: 3 km	B (mm/day)	5.31	5.71	5.46	3.68	4.87	5.98
	RMSE (mm/day)	11.69	10.21	11.3	10.02	11.68	12.17
	MAE (mm/day)	9.7	8.08	8.52	7.32	8.45	9.19

The smaller errors are given in bold.