%0 journal article %@ 1991-959X %A Demory, M.-E., Berthou, S., Fernández, J., Sørland, S.L., Brogli, R., Roberts, M.J., Beyerle, U., Seddon, J., Haarsma, R., Schär, C., Buonomo, E., Christensen, O.B., Ciarlo, J.M., Fealy, R., Nikulin, G., Peano, D., Putrasahan, D., Roberts, C.D., Senan, R., Steger, C., Teichmann, C., Vautard, R. %D 2020 %J Geoscientific Model Development %N 11 %P 5485-5506 %R doi:10.5194/gmd-13-5485-2020 %T European daily precipitation according to EURO-CORDEX regional climate models (RCMs) and high-resolution global climate models (GCMs) from the High-Resolution Model Intercomparison Project (HighResMIP) %U https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-5485-2020 11 %X The analyses also confirm previous findings that, although the spatial representation of precipitation is improved, the effect of increasing resolution from 50 to 12 km horizontal grid spacing in EURO-CORDEX daily precipitation distributions is, in comparison, small in most regions and seasons outside mountainous regions and coastal regions. Our results show that both high-resolution GCMs and CORDEX RCMs provide adequate information to end users at a 50 km scale.