Objective To develop and apply higher resolution limited area climatemodels embedded in coarser global models, in order to provideincreased accuracy of regional and local simulations of climateand climate change.The work will concentrate on the development and testing ofnested high resolution limited area models (LAMs) and the testingof their skill in reproducing the present climate.A series of LAM simulations with "perfect" boundary conditions(from analyses of observed data) will be carried out. Thesimulations will be validated against observed data using anumber of standard and non--standard techniques. Experimentswill be carried out with different parametrization schemes forthe modelled physics, different treatments of the lateralboundaries, and different spatial resolutions. These experimentswill give upper bounds for the accuracy to be expected forapplications of the models in a climate change context.Two of the LAMs will be used to used to "regionalize" climatesimulations from atmospheric models (AGCM's at NCAR and at MPIM).The lateral boundaries will be taken from outputs of these AGCM'scovering 10--20 years. The models are forced by prescribed(analysed) sea--surface temperatures (SSTs) and sea--ice fields.The simulations(both from the LAMs and the AGCMs) will bevalidated against observations and analyses for the period inquestion, and with climatology.A special study will investigate whether ocean SST(in casu the Atlantic SST's off the Portuguese coast)can be simulated realistically using an ocean limited area model(OLAM).Very high resolution climate simulations will be investigated bytwo specific studies. The first will use a statistical dynamicalmethodology to give very high resolution of the climate of the(greater) Alpine area. The methodology combines the use of amesoscale dynamical model with a statistical classificationscheme for the large scale flow regime. The second highresolution study is concentrating on the Iberian peninsula, andwill investigate the further nesting into a (already nested) LAMof a higher resolution model. Fields of science natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes Programme(s) FP3-ENV 1C - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the environment, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 0101 - Natural climate change Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. Address Bundesstra¯e 55 20146 Hamburg Germany See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all AGENZIA REGIONALE PREVENZIONE E AMBIENTE DELL'EMILIA-ROMAGNA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Viale silvani 6 40122 Bologna See on map DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE Denmark EU contribution € 0,00 Address 100,lyngbyvej 100 2100 Koepenhagen See on map GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTRE Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Muenchener strasse 20, oberpfaffernhofen 82234 Wessling See on map UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address 2,avenida de seneca 2, ciudad universitaria 28040 Madrid See on map Universidad de Alcalá de Henares Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Km 33,6,carretera de barcelona km 33,6 28801 Camp Madrid See on map Università degli Studi dell'Aquila Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via vetoio 10 67010 Coppito l'aquila See on map
