MESMAR v1: a new regional coupled climate model for downscaling, predictability, and data assimilation studies in the Mediterranean region

Storto, Andrea; Hesham Essa, Yassmin; de Toma, Vincenzo; Anav, Alessandro; Sannino, Gianmaria; Santoleri, Rosalia; Yang, Chunxue

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4811-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 16

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4811-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4811-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 16

Model description paper

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24 Aug 2023

Model description paper |

| 24 Aug 2023

MESMAR v1: a new regional coupled climate model for downscaling, predictability, and data assimilation studies in the Mediterranean region

Andrea Storto, Yassmin Hesham Essa, Vincenzo de Toma, Alessandro Anav, Gianmaria Sannino, Rosalia Santoleri, and Chunxue Yang

Data sets

MESMAR v1: A new regional coupled climate model for downscaling, predictability, and data assimilation studies in the Mediterranean region, Article data (1.0) A. Storto https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7898938

Model code and software

WRF wrf-model https://github.com/wrf-model/WRF

The Hydrological Discharge Model - a river runoff component for offline and coupled model applications (5.1.0) S. Hagemann and H. T. M. Ho-Hagemann https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5707587

MESMAR v1: A new regional coupled climate model for downscaling, predictability, and data assimilation studies in the Mediterranean region, Coupled model code (1.0) A. Storto, Y. Hesham Essa, V. de Toma, A. Anav, G. Sannino, R. Santoleri, and C. Yang https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7898938

Short summary

Regional climate models are a fundamental tool for a very large number of applications and are being increasingly used within climate services, together with other complementary approaches. Here, we introduce a new regional coupled model, intended to be later extended to a full Earth system model, for climate investigations within the Mediterranean region, coupled data assimilation experiments, and several downscaling exercises (reanalyses and long-range predictions).