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Within the MED-CORDEX and HYMEX projects several institutes all over Europe are investigating regional climate simulation in the Mediterranean.
Model domain
For the Mediterranean, the simulations are performed on a rotated grid with the pole at 162°W longitude and 39.25°N latitude. The domain covers approximately the region from about 27°W to 58°E longitude and 21°N to 60°N latitude.
For MED-CORDEX the simulations were carried out mainly on with a resolution grid spacing of 0.44° (approx. 50 km) to enable a large ensemble. Several modeling groups perform simulations with about 10-km horizontal grid distancespacing. For exampleIn addition, the an ERA-Interim driven evaluation run using with COSMO-CLM has also been performed with a grid - spacing of 0.088° (approx. 9 km).
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Evaluation runs were performed at the Goethe University Frankfurt using ERA-Interim data as boundary forcing for the time period 1989 - 2008 using the same COSMO-CLM configuration as for EURO-CORDEX, and for 1979-2012 with the CORDEX-Africa configuration. The climate projections are carried out using the COSMPCOSMO-CLM configuration as that has also been used for the CORDEX-Africa simulations.
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