Precipitation and Its Future Changes in the Greater Alpine Region: High-resolution Bias-adjusted Versus Dynamically Downscaled Datasets

Weather and climate in mountainous regions are strongly affected by topography, which shapes temperature, precipitation, and wind systems on local scales. The topography can trigger and exacerbate extreme events such as downslope windstorms and heavy convective precipitation. These regions are also particularly sensitive to climate change - higher elevations generally experience faster warming. Nevertheless, our understanding of local-scale atmospheric phenomena in complex terrain remains limited, partially because reliable observations are sparse, and most climate simulations are too coarse to resolve the relevant processes. Recent advances in computational power and various downscaling techniques have partly alleviated this problem, giving rise to multiple multi-model ensembles of km-scale climate simulations (