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5. Future climate
We will compare the simulated climate in the 20 th century to
observational climatologies. Focus is on evaluating the
ability of the combination HadCM3-RCA3 to simulate
aspects of the atmospheric circulation in the area and the
associated rainfall patterns and their seasonal migration. In a
next step it will be illustrated how these aspects change in a
changing climate and to what degree the regional climate
model alters the signal given by the global model.
6. Acknowledgements
This work is part of the ENSEMBLES project funded by the
EC through contract GOCE-CT-2003-505539. The Hadley
Centre is acknowledged for providing boundary data. The
model simulations with RCA3 were performed on the
climate computing resource Tornado funded with a grant
from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation.
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