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with increasing temperature. More model results will be
available as the paper will be presented.
This model, on the other hand shows a marked warming
with increasing temperature. However in the future, the
model experiences such temperature levels throughout the
year that nearly 40% of all months are warmer than anything
experienced under current conditions. If the bias behavior of
the two other models represents a general model behavior
(as indeed supported by Christensen et al. 2008), this latter
model may just happen to have its bias curvature at a higher
temperature than experienced under present conditions. Note
for example that the excess warming does not appear to be
present before the last 30 year period. If so, one could
speculate on wehter this model would also need to be
corrected downwards in a similar way as the others,
particularly at the warmest months.
Acknowledgements
We are indebted to our partners in the ENSEMBLES
project, who have provided their ERA40 driven and GCM
driven climate simulation to the ENSEMBLES RCM
archive hosted by the DMI
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Lucas-Picher, On the need for bias correction of regional
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doi:10.1029/2008GL035694, 2008
Christensen, J.H. and O.B. Christensen, A summary of the
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