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Regional climate models still lack in an adequate description of the land surface. Here, hydrological land surface models historically developed from small-scale catchment models with higher spatial resolution than regional climate models. Hence, they have a more detailed view on land surface processes. Therefore, a basic idea was to substitute a land surface module within the regional climate model with the improved hydrological land surface model. For this purpose, we adopted the Mesoscale Model 5 (MM5) and the hydrological land surface model PROMET for coupling the two models in both directions. As a result, we conclude that the bilateral coupling improved simulation results in both the atmosphere model and the hydrological land surface model.
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Zabel, F., Mauser, W., Marke, T. (2016). Two-Way Coupling the PROMET and MM5 Models. In: Mauser, W., Prasch, M. (eds) Regional Assessment of Global Change Impacts. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16751-0_33
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