This paper discusses some general aspects of regional climate modelling with a special focus on precipitation, and gives an overview of current activities in this area. Furthermore, we present a model evaluation study where we investigate the ability of a specific regional climate model, the COSMO-CLM, to represent statistical characteristics of daily precipitation in Germany. Since the model performance and uncertainty reveals large variability between different regions, we recommend specific evaluation studies before using a regional climate model which has not been applied and tested before in Eastern Europe.
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Bachner, S., Simmer, C. (2009). Aspects of Regional Climate Modelling with Focus on Precipitation. In: Groisman, P.Y., Ivanov, S.V. (eds) Regional Aspects of Climate-Terrestrial-Hydrologic Interactions in Non-boreal Eastern Europe. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2283-7_10
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