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The advances in satellitetechnology in recent years have made feasible the acquisition ofhigh-resolution information on the Earth's surface. Examples of suchinformation include elevation and land use, which have become more detailed.Including this information in numerical atmospheric models can improve theirresults in simulating lower boundary forced events, by providing detailedinformation on their characteristics. Consequently, this work aims to studythe sensitivity of the weather research and forecast (WRF) model to differenttopography as well as land-use simulations in an extreme precipitation event.The test case focused on a topographically driven precipitation event overthe island of Madeira, which triggered flash floods and mudslides in thesouthern parts of the island. Difference fields between simulations werecomputed, showing that the change in the data sets produced statisticallysignificant changes to the flow, the planetary boundary layer structure andprecipitation patterns. Moreover, model results show an improvement in modelskill in the windward region for precipitation and in the leeward region forwind, in spite of the non-significant enhancement in the overall results withhigher-resolution data sets of topography and land use

Sensitivity of the WRF model to the lower boundary in an extreme precipitation event – Madeira island case study