TY  - JOUR
A1  - Primo, Cristina
A1  - Kelemen, Fanni Dóra
A1  - Feldmann, Hendrik
A1  - Akhtar, Naveed
A1  - Ahrens, Bodo
T1  - A regional atmosphere–ocean climate system model (CCLMv5.0clm7-NEMOv3.3-NEMOv3.6) over Europe including three marginal seas: on its stability and performance
T2  - Geoscientific Model Development (GMD)
N2  - The frequency of extreme events has changed, having a direct impact on human lives. Regional climate models help us to predict these regional climate changes. This work presents an atmosphere–ocean coupled regional climate system model (RCSM; with the atmospheric component COSMO-CLM and the ocean component NEMO) over the European domain, including three marginal seas: the Mediterranean, North, and Baltic Sea. To test the model, we evaluate a simulation of more than 100 years (1900–2009) with a spatial grid resolution of about 25 km. The simulation was nested into a coupled global simulation with the model MPI-ESM in a low-resolution configuration, whose ocean temperature and salinity were nudged to the ocean–ice component of the MPI-ESM forced with the NOAA 20th Century Reanalysis (20CR). The evaluation shows the robustness of the RCSM and discusses the added value by the coupled marginal seas over an atmosphere-only simulation. The coupled system is stable for the complete 20th century and provides a better representation of extreme temperatures compared to the atmosphere-only model. The produced long-term dataset will help us to better understand the processes leading to meteorological and climate extremes.
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53547
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-535471
SN  - 1991-9603
SN  - 1991-959X
N1  - © Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
VL  - 12
IS  - 12
SP  - 1
EP  - 19
PB  - Copernicus
CY  - Göttingen
ER  -