International Baltic Earth Secretariat Publications
Erscheinungsjahr:
2016
Medientyp:
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Beschreibung:
For the evaluation and assessment of regional climate models reference data are needed. Reanalyses, such as e.g. ERA40 (Uppala et al., 2005), arewidely used as forcing for hindcast runs and as reference of the actual climate state. In general, all existing reanalyses are based on various assimilated observations that are inhomogeneously distributed in space and time, and most of them are aimed at global scale investigations and usage. But how accurately can these reanalyses describe the present climate for regional evaluations, especially in near-coastal regions? To investigate regional characteristics in the North Sea area, the KLIWAS North Sea Climatology was developed as reference data base in close cooperation between the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) and theIntegrated Climate Data Center (ICDC). KLIWAS was initiated by theFederal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure of Germany (BMVI) to analyze the potential consequences of climate change for navigation on inland and coastal waterways.