896: Simulation of the Mediterranean climate in the framework of HYMEX

Principal investigator: Bodo Ahrens

Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Atmosphäre und Umwelt (Community project)

Project abstract

Report 1/2015 to 12/2015
Final report

Publications

• Flaounas, E., Kelemen, F.D., Wernli, H., Gaertner, M.A., Reale, M., Sanchez-Gomez, E., Lionello, P., Calmanti, S., Podrascanin, Z., Somot, S., Akhtar, N., Romera, R., Conte, D (2016). Assessment of an ensemble of ocean–atmosphere coupled and uncoupled regional climate models to reproduce the climatology of Mediterranean cyclones. Climate Dynamics. doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3398-7
• Gaertner, M.A. et al. (2016). Impact of ocean-atmosphere coupling and high resolution on the simulation of medicanes over the Mediterranean Sea: multi-model analysis with Med-CORDEX and EURO-CORDEX runs. Climate Dynamics. doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3456-1
• Obermann, A., S. Bastin, S. Belamari, D. Conte, M. A. Gaertner, L. Li, B. Ahrens (2016). Mistral and Tramontane wind speed and wind direction patterns in regional climate simulations. Climate Dynamics. doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3053-3
• Obermann-Hellhund A., D. Conte, S. Somot, C. Zsolt Torma, B. Ahrens (2016) Mistral and Tramontane wind systems in regional and global climate simulations from 1950 to 2100. Accepted by Climate Dynamics
• Akhtar, N., J. Brauch, B. Ahrens (2017). Climate Modeling over the Mediterranean Sea: Impact of Resolution and Ocean Coupling. Climate Dynamics. DOI 10.1007/s00382-017-3570-8
• 1. Akhtar, N., J. Brauch, A. Dobler, K. Berenger, B. Ahrens.: Medicanes in an ocean-atmosphere coupled regional climate model. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 2189-2201. doi:10.5194/nhess-14-2189-2014, 2014.
• 1. Ruti PM, Somot S, Giorgi F, Dubois C, Flaounas E, Obermann A, Dell’Aquila A, Pisacane G, Harzallah A, Lombardi E, Ahrens B, Akhtar N, Alias A, Arsouze T, Aznar R, Bastin S, Bartholy J, Béranger K, Beuvier J, Bouffies-Cloché S, Brauch J, Cabos W, Calmanti S, Calvet J-C, Carillo A, Conte D, Coppola E, Djurdjevic V, Drobinski P, Elizalde-Arellano A, Gaertner M, Galàn P, Gallardo C, Gualdi S, Goncalves M, Jorba O, Jordà G, L'Heveder B, Lebeaupin-Brossier C, Li L, Liguori G, Lionello P, Maciàs-Moy D, Nabat P, Onol B, Rajkovic B, Ramage K, Sevault F, Sannino G, Struglia MV, Sanna A, Torma C, Vervatis V (2015) MED-CORDEX initiative for Mediterranean Climate studies. BAMS, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00176.1