ACPD Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions ACPD 1680-7375 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acpd-5-2355-2005 Comparison of raingauge observations with modeled precipitation over Cyprus using Contiguous Rain Area analysis Tartaglione N. 1 Mariani S. 2 Accadia C. 2 Speranza A. 3 Casaioli M. 2 Department of Physics, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy Agenzia per la Protezione dell’Ambiente e per i Servizi Tecnici, Rome, Italy Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy 18 04 2005 5 2 2355 2376 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/5/2355/2005/acpd-5-2355-2005.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/5/2355/2005/acpd-5-2355-2005.pdf

Verification of modeled rainfall with precipitation observed by a rain gauge network has been performed in a case study over the Cyprus Island. Cyprus has a relatively dense rain gauge network. The applied verification method is the Contiguous Rain Area (CRA) analysis. In this work some drawbacks are pointed out when CRA method is applied in such a case study. Impact on CRA results, when considering different dimensions of the compared model domain and different types of indicators (correlation and mean square error) used in the comparison, are discussed. Results indicate that care has to be taken when verification of modeled rainfall is performed over some of islands or hydrological basins.