Abstract
We investigate the performance of the 12-km horizontal resolution simulations that are increasingly becoming available from the CORDEX simulations, as part of the Phase I CORDEX regional climate model runs (which mainly contain climate downscaling simulations at a grid spacing of about 50 km). In this preliminary work we evaluate 12-km CORDEX simulations driven by the ERA-Interim re-analyses for the period 1980–2010 with a focus in the Levant, broadly defined as the region encompassing the eastern Mediterranean. The 12-km modelled climatology, variability and trends of temperature and precipitation are compared with station measurements from different locations in the region and their performance is assessed. Biases of a few degrees are assigned to the model while the inter-annual variability and longer-term trends is reproduced nicely.
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We acknowledge the data providers in the ECA&D project. Data and metadata available at http://www.ecad.eu. We also acknowledge the World Climate Research Programme’s Working Group on Regional Climate. We are grateful to the climate modelling group at SMHI, Sweden, for producing and making available their RCA4 model output and the Earth System Grid Federation infrastructure, the European Network for Earth System Modelling and other partners in the Global Organisation for Earth System Science Portals (GO-ESSP).
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Hadjinicolaou, P., Zittis, G., Lelieveld, J. (2017). Exploration of 12-km ERA-Interim Simulations from CORDEX Over the Levant. In: Karacostas, T., Bais, A., Nastos, P. (eds) Perspectives on Atmospheric Sciences. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35095-0_91
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