We sincerely apologize for a technical error revealed in this article, published in 2023: the spectral nudging process at the upper levels was not functioning as intended. Consequently, the final results presented in the original work are based on WRF downscaling without active spectral nudging. To assess the potential impact of this error on the study’s main conclusion, we conducted two additional experiments using the same W...

The Tibetan Plateau (TP), also called the Third Pole, is considered to be “the world water tower”. The northwestern TP (NWTP), which has an average elevation higher than 4800 m, is an arid region where the summer precipitation is largely overestimated by the ERA5 global reanalysis product. We hypothesize that this wet bias is mainly caused by unrealistic lower-level winds that trigger strong convection over the region; it can...

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is often referred to as the “water tower of Asia” or the “Third Pole”. It remains a challenge for most global and regional models to realistically simulate precipitation, especially its diurnal cycles, over the TP. This study focuses on evaluating the summer (June–August) precipitation diurnal cycles over the TP simulated by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The horizontal resolution us...

Solar radiation changes (dimming/brightening) have recently received growing attention within the research community, although there is currently no generally accepted explanation. This article aims to provide a new perspective for identifying the reasons behind solar dimming/brightening by using long‐term measurements of direct and diffuse solar radiation, unlike previous studies which have focused on global solar radiation....