Overview
The aim of application of Regional Climate Models (RCMs) is to provide reliable information about climate and climate change on regional to local scales. The need for climate change results on km-scale is increasing. RCMs based on non-hydrostatic models of the atmosphere can simulate the climate on grid scales down to 1 km, at which convective processes are partly to fully resolved. Due to limited computational resources the grid resolution and simulation domain vary substantially in Convection Resolving Climate Simulations (CRCS).
The effective model resolution of the simulations is significantly smaller than the grid size, parameters describing the landscape have limited quality and/or resolution, and there is still a need for parameterisation of unresolved processes. This makes the set-up and the fidelity of the models dependent on the simulated region and domain of application. The added value, compared to coarser scale climate simulations, has only partly been demonstrated. The relevance of several processes for climate variability on local scales is unknown. High resolution observations are available for very few quantities only and not everywhere. The quality of simulated climate variability on regional to local scales is thus partly unknown and/or requires further improvement. Also, the quality of results is partly insufficient for usage in climate impact studies and makes a bias correction necessary.
Hence, there is a need for coordinated research and development efforts: (i) on the development of generic km-scale climate model set-ups for long climate simulations, including specific parameterisations of regional and local effects (with relevance, e.g., for hydrology, renewable energy, agriculture, etc.); (ii) for further evaluation data and evaluation methods appropriate for CRCS simulations; (iii) for a better understanding of processes, mechanisms and variability of regional to local climate; (iv) to reduce model structural deficiencies, and to support model development.
The working group is a platform for discussion and collaboration on these aspects. The WG collaborates with other WGs in the CLM-Community and with national and international initiatives on convection resolving modelling.
Wiki(s) of currently active efforts: 🔑CECPI-Ger
Wiki(s) of past or inactive efforts: 🔑CECPC5.0🔑Big Brother🔑CRCS_namelist_market🔑CRCS_evaluation_strategy
Coordinated Evaluation of Convection Permitting Climate simulations with ICON for Germany
To find optimal parameter settings for predefined model domains a sub-working group is working. The tasks and results are organized via CECPI-Ger (access for CRCS-members only).
Coordinated Evaluation of Convection Permitting Climate simulations with COSMO-CLM5.0
To find optimal parameter settings for predefined model domains a sub-working group is working. The tasks and results are organized via wiki (access for CRCS-members only).
Groups working on CLM_CRCS topics
Research groups related to CRCS can be found via the topic browser🔑.
CLM_CRCS related projects
The CRCS related projects can be found via the topic browser🔑.
CLM_CRCS Namelist Market
A marketplace🔑 with namelists that have been used for conducting CRCSs can be found in the Redmine system.
Please add your namelists to this marketplace, so that modelers who are not that experienced may have a better starting point for their simulations.
High resolution observational and analysis data
Wegener Net
The WegenerNet climate station network region Feldbach comprises 151 meteorological stations in a tightly spaced grid (~ 20 km x 15 km) in the southeastern part of Styria. Temperature, humidity, precipitation, and other parameters are measured with high accuracy and are provided on various temporal scales (from 5 minutes to annual) for both single stations (one station per ~2 km²;) and interpolated regular grids (UTM, 1 km x 1 km; latitude/longitude, 0.01° x 0.01°). For application purposes, all data is available for visualization and download via the WegenerNet data portal (www.wegenernet.org ).
Kabas, T., A. Leuprecht, C. Bichler, and G. Kirchengast, WegenerNet climate station network region Feldbach, Austria: network structure, processing system, and example results, Adv. Sci. Res., 6, 49-54, 2011, doi: 10.5194/asr-6-49-2011
Integrated Nowcasting through Comprehensive Analysis (INCA)
The Integrated Nowcasting through Comprehensive Analysis (INCA) dataset is produced by the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) (Haiden et al. 2011). It has a 1 km × 1 km resolution and covers entire Austria. The INCA dataset is derived via a combination of numerical weather predictions (NWPs) (ALADIN, ECMWF) with current observation data from stations, radar, and satellites, and is further refined with highly resolved orographic information (http://www.zamg.ac.at/forschung/synoptik/inca/ ).
Haiden, T., A. Kann, C. Wittmann, G. Pistotnik, B. Bica, and C. Gruber, The Integrated Nowcasting through Comprehensive Analysis (INCA) System and Its Validation over the Eastern Alpine Region, Wea. Forecasting, 26, 2, 166-183, 2011, doi: 10.1175/2010WAF2222451.1
CH02H
Rain gauges and weather radars both constitute important devices for operational precipitation monitoring. Gauges provide accurate yet spotty precipitation estimates, while radars offer high temporal and spatial resolution yet at a limited absolute accuracy. We propose a simple methodology to combine radar and daily rain-gauge data to build
up a precipitation dataset with hourly resolution covering a climatological time period. The methodology starts from a daily precipitation analysis, derived from a dense rain-gauge network. A sequence of hourly radar analyses is then used to disaggregate the daily analyses. The disaggregation is applied such as to retain the daily precipitation totals of the rain gauge analysis, in order to reduce the impact of quantitative radar biases. Hence, only the radar’s advantage in terms of temporal resolution is exploited. In this article, the disaggregation method is applied to derive a 15-year gridded precipitation dataset at hourly resolution for Switzerland at a spatial resolution of 2 km. Validation of this dataset indicates that errors in hourly intensity and frequency are lower than 25% on average over the Swiss Plateau. In Alpine valleys, however, errors are typically larger due to the shielding effects of the radar and the corresponding underestimation of precipitation
periods by the disaggregation. For the flatland areas of the Swiss Plateau, the new dataset offers an interesting quantitative description of high-frequency precipitation variations suitable for climatological analyses of heavy events, the evaluation of numerical weather forecasting models and the calibration/operation of hydrological runoff models.
Wüest, M., C. Frei, A. Altenhoff, M. Hagen, M. Litschi, C. Schär: A gridded hourly precipitation dataset for Switzerland using rain-gauge analysis and radar-based disaggregation, Int J Climatol, 30, 12, 1764–1775, 2010, doi: 10.1002/joc.2025
The Alpine precipitation grid dataset (EURO4M-APGD)
doi:10.18751/Climate/Griddata/APGD/1.0
MeteoSwiss has developed a gridded analysis of daily precipitation, extending over the entire Alpine region. The dataset is based on measurements at high-resolution rain-gauge networks, encompassing more than 8500 stations from Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland. The dataset was developed in the framework of EURO4M (European Reanalysis and Observations for Monitoring), a FP7 (seventh framework program) Collaborative Project of the European Union.
Isotta, F.A. et al. 2014: The climate of daily precipitation in the Alps: development and analysis of a high-resolution grid dataset from pan-Alpine rain-gauge data. Int. J. Climatol., 34: 1657-1675. doi: 10.1002/joc.3794.
REGNIE (DWD)
The REGNIE dataset contains daily precipitation on a 1 km grid covering Germany within the period 1961 to 2016 (dataset description
).
DWD (2009). Regionalisierte Niederschlagshöhen (REGNIE).
Der Datensatz "REGNIE" existiert nicht mehr. Er wurde Anfang Januar 2022 durch den "HYRAS-PRE-DE " Datensatz ersetzt.
PTHBV (SMHI)
Daily precipitation data-set for Sweden on a 4 km grid for 1961 to 2010.
Johansson, B. (2002). Estimation of areal precipitation for hydrological modelling in Sweden. Ph.D.thesis A76. Earth Science Centre, Göteborg University.
KLIMAGRID (met.no)
Daily precipitation and temperature for Norway on a 1 km grid within the period 1957 to 2017.
Lussana et al (2019): seNorge_2018 , daily precipitation, and temperature datasets over Norway
Spain011 (UniCan)
Daily precipitation on a 0.11° grid for Spain given from 1971 to 2011.
Herrera, S. et al. (2012). Development and analysis of a 50-year high-resolution daily gridded precipitation dataset over Spain (Spain02)". In: Int. J. Climatol. 32.1, pp. 74-85
CARPATCLIM
Gridded multiple parameter dataset covering the Carpathian region with 10 km grid spacing from 1961 to 2010.
Szalai, S. et al. (2013). Climate of the Greater Carpathian Region. Final Technical Report. www.carpatclim-eu.org .
SAFRAN (Meteo France)
Gridded reanalysis for France providing multiple sub-daily parameters on an 8 km grid from 1958 to 2013.
Quintana-Segui, P. et al. (2008). Analysis of near-surface atmospheric variables: Validation of the SAFRAN analysis over France. In: Journal of Applied Meteorology & Climatology 47.1
A broad buffet of different kinds of observational data can be found under
General Observation Period (GOP), covering 2007/2008
Crewell, S., M. Mech, T. Reinhardt, C. Selbach, H. -. Betz, E. Brocard, G. Dick, E. O'Connor, J. Fischer, T. Hanisch, T. Hauf, A. Hünerbein, L. Delobbe, A. Mathes, G. Peters, H. Wernli, M. Wiegner, and V. Wulfmeyer (2008), The general observation period 2007 within the priority program on quantitative precipitation forecasting: Concept and first results, Meteorol.Z., 17, 6, 849-866, doi: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0336 .
Convectively and Orographically Induced Precipitation Study (COPS), covering the Black Forest (Germany) from June to August 2007
Wulfmeyer, V., A. Behrendt, H. -. Bauer, C. Kottmeier, U. Corsmeier, A. Blyth, G. Craig, U. Schumann, M. Hagen, S. Crewell, P. Di Girolamo, C. Flamant, M. Miller, A. Montani, S. Mobbs, E. Richard, M. W. Rotach, M. Arpagaus, H. Russchenberg, P. Schlüssel, M. König, V. Gärtner, R. Steinacker, M. Dorninger, D. D. Turner, T. Weckwerth, A. Hense, and C. Simmer (2008), RESEARCH CAMPAIGN: The Convective and Orographically Induced Precipitation Study, A Research and Development Project of the World Weather Research Program for Improving Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting in Low-Mountain Regions, Bull.Am.Meteorol.Soc., 89, 10, 1477-1486, doi: 10.1175/2008BAMS2367.1 .
CLM_CRCS Literature
Ban, N., J. Schmidli, and C. Schär (2014), Evaluation of the convection-resolving regional climate modeling approach in decade-long simulations, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., doi:10.1002/2014JD021478
Chan, S. C., Kendon, E. J., Fowler, H. J., Blenkinsop, S., Roberts, N. M., Ferro, C. A. (2014). The value of high-resolution Met Office regional climate
models in the simulation of multi-hourly precipitation extremes. Journal of Climate
Fosser G, Khodayar S, Berg P (2014) Benefit of convection-permitting climate model simulations in the representation of convective precipitation, Climate
Dynamics
Froidevaux, P., L. Schlemmer, J. Schmidli, W. Langhans, C. Schär (2014): Influence of background wind on the local soil moisture-precipitation feedback. J. Atmos. Sci.,71, 782-799.
Grell, G. A., L. Schade, R. Knoche, A. Pfeiffer, J Egger (2000): Nonhydrostatic climate simulations of precipitation over complex terrain, J Geophys Res-Atmos.,105 (D24), 29595-29608, doi: 10.1029/2000JD900445
Hohenegger C., P. Brockhaus, C. Schaer (2008): Towards climate simulations at cloud-resolving scales, Meteorol. Z., 17 (4), 383-394
P. Brockhaus, C. S. Bretherton and C. Schär (2009): The soil moisture-precipitation feedback in simulations with explicit and parameterized convection, J. Climate , 22 (19), 5003-5020
Junk, J., A. Matzarakis, A. Ferrone, A. Krein (2014), Evidence of past and future changes in health-related meteorological variables across Luxembourg, Air Qual Atmos Health, 7, 71–81, doi: 10.1007/s11869-013-0229-4
Kendon, E. J., N. M. Roberts, et al. (2014). "Heavier summer downpours with climate change revealed by weather forecast resolution model." Nature Clim. Change 4(7): 570-576.
Knote, C., G. Heinemann, B. Rockel, Changes in weather extremes: Assessment of return values using high-resolution climate simulations at convection-resolving scale, Meteorol. Z.19 (1), 11-32, 2010, doi: 10.1127/0941-2948/2010/0424
Langhans, W., J. Schmidli, C. Schaer: Mesoscale Impacts of Explicit Numerical Diffusion in a Convection-Permitting Model, Mon.Weather Rev., 140(1), 226-244, 2012, doi: 10.1175/2011MWR3650.1
Langhans, W., J. Schmidli, C. Schaer: Bulk Convergence of Cloud-Resolving Simulations of Moist Convection over Complex Terrain, J. Atmos.Sci., 69(7), 2207-2228, 2012, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0252.1
Langhans, W., J. Schmidli, O. Fuhrer, S. Bieri, and C. Schaer (2013): Long-term simulations of thermally driven flows and orographic convection at convection-parameterizing and cloud-resolving resolutions. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 52, 1490-1510.
Mass, F. C., D. Ovens, K. Westrick, B. A. Colle: Does increasing horizontal resolution produce more skillful forecasts? The results of two years of real-time numerical weather prediction over the Pacific Northwest, B Am Meteorol Soc , 407–430, 2002
Prein, A. F., and A. Gobiet, NHCM-1: Non-hydrostatic climate modelling. Part I: Defining and Detecting Added Value in Cloud Resolving Climate Simulations, Sci. Rep., 39-2011, 74 pp., 2011, Wegener Center Verlag, Graz, Austria, ISBN 978-3-9502940-6-4, available .
Prein, A. F., M. Suklitsch, H. Truhetz, and A. Gobiet (2011), NHCM-1: Non-hydrostatic climate modelling. Part III: Evaluation of the LocMIP simulations, Sci. Rep., 41-2011, 128 pp., 2011, Wegener Center Verlag, Graz, Austria, ISBN 978-3-9502940-8-8, avaiable .
Prein, A. F., A. Gobiet, M. Suklitsch, H. Truhetz, N. K. Awan, K. Keuler, and G. Georgievski (2013) Added Value of Convection Permitting Seasonal Simulations. Clim. Dyn., doi: 10.1007/s00382-013-1744-6
Prein, A. F., G. J. Holland, R. M. Rasmussen, J. Done, K. Ikeda, M. P. Clark, and C. H. Liu (2013) Importance of Regional Climate Model Grid Spacing for the Simulation of Precipitation Extremes. J. Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00727.1
Suklitsch, M., A. F. Prein, H. Truhetz, and A. Gobiet, NHCM-1: Non-hydrostatic climate modelling. Part II: Current state of selected cloud-resolving regional climate models and their error characteristics, Sci. Rep., 40-2011, 90 pp., 2011, Wegener Center Verlag, Graz, Austria, ISBN 978-3-9502940-7-1, available
Tölle, M. H., O. Gutjahr, G. Busch, and J. C. Thiele (2014), Increasing bioenergy production on arable land: Does the regional and local climate respond? Germany as a case study, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 2711–2724, doi:10.1002/2013JD020877
Van Weverberg, K., Goudenhoofdt, E., Blahak, U., Brisson, E., Demuzere, M., Marbaix, P., & van Ypersele, J. P. (2014). Comparison of one-moment and two-moment bulk microphysics for high-resolution climate simulations of intense precipitation. Atmospheric Research, 147, 145-161.
WG Meetings
Date | Meeting and Location | Documents |
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23 Sep 2021 | 24th Meeting WG CRCS Assembly, online | |
18 March 2021 | Joined meeting of WG CP and CRCS at ICCARUS | |
2016 | CLM Community Assembly, Lüneburg | |
2016 | COSMO-CLM User Seminar, Offenbach | |
2015 | CLM Community Assembly, Belval | |
2015 | COSMO-CLM User Seminar, Offenbach | |
2014 | CLM Community Assembly, Frankfurt | |
2014 | COSMO-CLM User Seminar, Offenbach | |
2013 | CLM Community Assembly, Zurich | |
2013 | COSMO-CLM User Seminar, Offenbach | |
2012 | CLM Community Assembly, Leuven | |
2012 | COSMO-CLM User Seminar, Offenbach | |
2011 | CLM Community Assembly, Cava de' Tirreni | |
2011 | COSMO-CLM User Seminar, Langen | |
2010 | CLM Community Assembly, Berlin | |
2010 | CLM Spring meeting, Langen |
WG Annual Reports
WG_CRCS_Annual_Report_2011.pdf
WG_CRCS_Annual_Report_2012.pdf
WG_CRCS_Annual_Report_2013.pdf
WG_CRCS_Annual_Report_2014.pdf
WG_CRCS_Annual_Report_2015.pdf
WG_CRCS_Annual_Report_2016.pdf
Members
When logged in the link gives the List of WG CRCS members🔑 (without login it shows the complete members list).
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3rd meeting
Goal(s):
Decision on concrete procedures and timelines until mid September, discussion of evaluation procedure
4th meeting / 2024-05-22
Goal(s):
Reference simulation status, todos, discussion of results CEI100 (tasks from 2nd meeting) and definition of optimisation goals, etc.
5th meeting / 2024-06-05 / 13:00-14:30CEST
Goal(s):
Status of ongoing work; discussion of 1st results of CEI100 reference simulations and NUKLEUS CP evaluation simulations; definition of 1st set of test simulations; EVA-Suite development and extensions
6th meeting / 2024-06-19 / 13:30-15:00CEST ***NEW TIME!***
Topics:
1. Status ongoing work (efficiency/performance; EVA-Suite improvements/extension; CEI* baseline/reference run(s)); 2. discussion of configuration option and sensitivity tests w.r.t. extreme precipitation bias; definition of test runs; assignment of runs (see CECPI-Ger landing page for links to temporary/planning simulation table)
7th meeting / 2024-07-03 / 13:30-15:00CEST
Topics:
1. Status ongoing work (efficiency/performance; EVA-Suite improvements/extension; etc.); 2. discussion of first new CEI* sensitivity study results; 3. discussion of configuration option and sensitivity tests (e.g., w.r.t. extreme precipitation bias); 4. definition of test runs; 5. which analysis shall/can be done?; 6. assignment of runs (see CECPI-Ger landing page for links to temporary/planning simulation table)
8th meeting / 2024-07-17 / 13:30-15:00CEST
Topics:
Status ongoing work (efficiency/performance; EVA-Suite improvements/extension; etc.); discussion of ongoing CEI* sensitivity study results; determiniation and assignment of configuration test runs; refinement of the analysis plan (diagnostics and data)
10th meeting / 2024-07-31 / 13:30-15:00CEST
Note: the intermediate 9th meeting was on 2023-07-23, no entry here
Topics:
Status of preparation and details of the planned sensitivity test runs
11th meeting / 2024-08-15 / 10:00-11:30CEST
Topics:
Status of preparation and details of the planned sensitivity test runs, cont'd
12th meeting / 2024-08-29 / 10:00-11:30CEST
Topics:
Status of preparation and details of the planned sensitivity test runs, some results analysis and discussion
13th meeting / 2024-09-12 / 10:00-11:30CEST
Topics:
Topics will be on the reporting and the discussion of the status of ongoing work and preparation around the 3km parameter ICON-CLM test runs, the organisation of the start of the community test runs, and auxiliary tools and efforts (EVA-Suite, SPICE, LIMMO, etc.).
14th additional meeting / 2024-09-19 / 10:00-11:30CEST
Topics:
Reference data and norm definition with LiMMo analysis tool, brief status.
15th meeting / 2024-09-26 / 10:00-11:30CEST (trying to find better time slot)
Topics:
Status, discussion joint parameter test runs, continuation analysis discussion.
16th meeting / 2024-10-07 / 13:00-14:30
Topics:
Status of ongoing test runs, status of LiMMo, EVA-Suite results.
17th meeting / 2024-10-17 / 09:00-10:30
Topics:
Status / results of ongoing test runs, status / results of LiMMo, GA24 next week.
18th meeting / 2024-11-04 / 13:00-14:30
Topics:
Results of 1st test runs, refinement of optimisation startegy, definition of 2nd set of runs.
19th meeting / 2024-11-11 / 13:00-14:30
Topics:
Results of 1st test runs, LiMMo developments, status 2nd batch of runs.
20th meeting / 2024-11-25 / 13:00-14:30
Topics:
Evaluation and sensitivity test results of the 1st batch of simulations and the status of the 2nd batch as well as ongoing developments.
21st meeting / 2024-12-02 / 13:00-14:30
Topics:
Evaluation and sensitivity test results of the 2nd batch of simulations and planning of the 3rd batch.
22st meeting / 2024-12-09 / 13:00-14:30
Topics:
Evaluation and sensitivity test results of the 2nd batch of simulations cont'd and planning / start of the 3rd batch.
Draft agenda and online minutes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DMCIhHrsC7JQCoEp-GbsE1XQayc7WN6v8O8Sv99RBdU/
Meeting room:
https://fz-juelich-de.zoom.us/j/66934548011?pwd=xFR9KaEIpUaibZZqQj73pAWastfKS6.1
Next meeting:
presumably 2024-12-16, 13:00-14:30
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