Searching for an Added Value of Precipitation in Downscaled Seasonal Hindcasts over East Africa: COSMO-CLM Forced by MPI-ESM

Table 2

RMSE and mean difference (bias) of JJAS daily precipitation (mm/d) averaged over the four regions for COSMO-CLM (CCLM, (a)) and MPI-ESM (b).

(a)

	Region	RMSE	Bias
CCLM versus GPCC	EN	1.91	1.83
	ES	0.97	0.61
	S	1.23	0.94
	SS	0.78	0.29
CCLM versus ARC2	EN	3.65	3.59
	ES	2.06	1.98
	S	1.89	1.64
	SS	1.33	1.18
CCLM versus TAMSAT	EN	5.6	5.62
	ES	1.39	1.22
	S	3.42	3.32
	SS	2.30	2.26
CCLM versus TRMM	EN	1.63	1.53
	ES	1.23	0.98
	S	1.07	0.73
	SS	0.80	0.05

(b)

	Region	RMSE	Bias
MPI-ESM versus GPCC	EN
	ES
	S
	SS
MPI-ESM versus ARC2	EN
	ES
	S
	SS
MPI-ESM versus TAMSAT	EN
	ES
	S
	SS
MPI-ESM versus TRMM	EN
	ES
	S
	SS