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A first-of-its-kind multi-model convection permitting ensemble for investigating convective phenomena over Europe and the Mediterranean
A recently launched project under the auspices of the World Climate Research Program’s (WCRP) Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiments Flagship Pilot Studies program (CORDEX-FPS) is presented. This initiat...
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Map** the vulnerability of European summer tourism under 2 °C global warming
Summer tourism is one of the most important contributors to the European GDP especially for the southern countries and is highly dependent on the climatic conditions. Changes in average climatic conditions, al...
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Daily precipitation statistics in a EURO-CORDEX RCM ensemble: added value of raw and bias-corrected high-resolution simulations
Daily precipitation statistics as simulated by the ERA-Interim-driven EURO-CORDEX regional climate model (RCM) ensemble are evaluated over two distinct regions of the European continent, namely the European Al...
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Open AccessPrecipitation in the EURO-CORDEX \(0.11^{\circ }\) and \(0.44^{\circ }\) simulations: high resolution, high benefits?
In the framework of the EURO-CORDEX initiative an ensemble of European-wide high-resolution regional climate simulations on a $$0.11^...
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Regional climate modelling in CLARIS-LPB: a concerted approach towards twentyfirst century projections of regional temperature and precipitation over South America
The results of an ensemble of regional climate model (RCM) simulations over South America are presented. This is the first coordinated exercise of regional climate modelling studies over the continent, as par...
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Application of a hydrometeorological model chain to investigate the effect of global boundaries and downscaling on simulated river discharge
In the current study, two regional climate models (MM5 and REMO) driven by different global boundary conditions (the ERA40 reanalysis and the ECHAM5 model) are one-way coupled to the uncalibrated hydrological ...
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Simulation of rainfall anomalies leading to the 2005 drought in Amazonia using the CLARIS LPB regional climate models
The meteorological characteristics of the drought of 2005 in Amazonia, one of the most severe in the last 100 years were assessed using a suite of seven regional models obtained from the CLARIS LPB project. Th...
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Evaluation of an ensemble of regional climate model simulations over South America driven by the ERA-Interim reanalysis: model performance and uncertainties
The capability of a set of 7 coordinated regional climate model simulations performed in the framework of the CLARIS-LPB Project in reproducing the mean climate conditions over the South American continent has...
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Erratum to: Future projections of the surface heat and water budgets of the Mediterranean Sea in an ensemble of coupled atmosphere–ocean regional climate models
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Performance of a multi-RCM ensemble for South Eastern South America
The ability of four regional climate models to reproduce the present-day South American climate is examined with emphasis on La Plata Basin. Models were integrated for the period 1991–2000 with initial and lat...
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Future projections of the surface heat and water budgets of the Mediterranean Sea in an ensemble of coupled atmosphere–ocean regional climate models
Within the CIRCE project “Climate change and Impact Research: the Mediterranean Environment”, an ensemble of high resolution coupled atmosphere–ocean regional climate models (AORCMs) are used to simulate the M...
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Open AccessThe spread amongst ENSEMBLES regional scenarios: regional climate models, driving general circulation models and interannual variability
Various combinations of thirteen regional climate models (RCM) and six general circulation models (GCM) were used in FP6-ENSEMBLES. The response to the SRES-A1B greenhouse gas concentration scenario over Europ...
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Extremes and predictability in the European pre-industrial climate of a regional climate model
A high-resolution pre-industrial control simulation with the regional climate model REMO is analyzed in detail for different European subregions. To our knowledge, this is the first long pre-industrial control...
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Open AccessDownscaling extreme month-long anomalies in southern South America
We investigate the performance of one stretched-grid atmospheric global model, five different regional climate models and a statistical downscaling technique in simulating 3 months (January 1971, November 1986...
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Open AccessSensitivity of climate models to seasonal variability of snow-free land surface albedo
The seasonal variation of snow-free land surface albedo was integrated into the land surface schemes of the global climate model ECHAM5 and the regional climate model REMO to test the sensitivity of climate mo...
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Open AccessAn evaluation of Arctic cloud and radiation processes during the SHEBA year: simulation results from eight Arctic regional climate models
Eight atmospheric regional climate models (RCMs) were run for the period September 1997 to October 1998 over the western Arctic Ocean. This period was coincident with the observational campaign of the Surface ...
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An intercomparison of regional climate simulations for Europe: assessing uncertainties in model projections
Ten regional climate models (RCM) have been integrated with the standard forcings of the PRUDENCE experiment: IPCC-SRES A2 radiative forcing and Hadley Centre boundary conditions. The response over Europe, cal...
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Evaluation of an ensemble of Arctic regional climate models: spatiotemporal fields during the SHEBA year
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Evaluation of an ensemble of Arctic regional climate models: spatiotemporal fields during the SHEBA year
Simulations of eight different regional climate models (RCMs) have been performed for the period September 1997–September 1998, which coincides with the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) project ...
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Global high resolution versus Limited Area Model climate change projections over Europe: quantifying confidence level from PRUDENCE results
Four high resolution atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs) have been integrated with the standard forcings of the PRUDENCE experiment: IPCC-SRES A2 radiative forcing and Hadley Centre sea surface tempe...