Ensemble Simulations over Europe with the Regional Climate Model CLM forced with IPCC AR4 Global Scenarios
doi:10.2312/WDCC/MaD_TeReport_No03
Hollweg, Heinz-Dieter et al.
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TechnicalReport: Regional climate projections have been performed for Europe with the climate version CLM (version 3.1) of the 'Lokal-Modell' (LM) of the German Meteorological Service. CLM has been forced with output of the ECHAM5/MPIOM global climate model of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, which contributed to the fourth climate assessment report (AR4) of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The results of the global model for the IPCC A1B and B1 scenarios as well as the reconstruction of the last four decades of the 20th century (20C3M) for the AR4 are dynamically scaled down to the CLM grid cell size of about 18×18 km2. Climatological parameters including all model variables and additional quantities characterising the climate are available from the World Data Centre for Climate database run by the German climate service group Model and Data. They can be accessed by the general public at no costs with the help of M and D. In particular, the 'Service Group Adaptation' (SGA) has been established at M and D to assist adaptation projects funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) giving advice on the interpretation of the CLM model results.
Hollweg, Heinz-Dieter; Boehm, Uwe; Fast, Irina; Hennemuth, Barbara; Keuler, Klaus; Keup-Thiel, Elke; Lautenschlager, Michael; Legutke, Stephanie; Radtke, Kai; Rockel, Burkhardt; Schubert, Martina; Will, Andreas; Woldt, Michael; Wunram, Claudia (2008). Ensemble Simulations over Europe with the Regional Climate Model CLM forced with IPCC AR4 Global Scenarios. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.2312/WDCC/MaD_TeReport_No03