Reproducibility of Precipitation Variability over the Gulf of Guinea and the Western Sahel Associated with “Realistic” Subsurface Soil Moisture Prescriptions

Tomohito J. Yamada 2, 3, , Shinjiro Kanae, Taikan Oki, Yukiko Hirabayashi, Takeshi Enomoto, Akira Yoshida, Nobumasa Komori, Wataru Ohfuchi Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD), Japan Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Japan The Earth Simulator Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan