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Predicted Changes of Discharge into the Baltic Sea Under Climate Change<br />

C<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s Simulated by a Multi-Model Ensemble<br />

Stefan Hagemann and Daniela Jacob<br />

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstr.55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany, hagemann@dkrz.de, jacob@dkrz.de<br />

1. Abstract<br />

Several regi<strong>on</strong>al climate models (RCMs) participate in the<br />

European project PRUDENCE, which aims to predict<br />

uncertainties in RCM simulati<strong>on</strong>s over Europe. The RCMs<br />

comprise the ARPEGE model (Déqué et al. 1998) of Météo-<br />

France, a modified versi<strong>on</strong> of the German Weather Service‘s<br />

forecast Europa model (CHRM; Lüthi et al. 1996) used by<br />

the Institute for Climate Research of the ETH Zurich, the<br />

climate versi<strong>on</strong> of the Lokal-Modell (Doms et al. 2002) used<br />

by the GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht, the<br />

HadRM3H model (J<strong>on</strong>es et al. 1995) of the Hadley Centre,<br />

the HIRHAM4 model of the Danish Meteorological<br />

Institute, the PROMES model (Gaertner et al. 2001) of the<br />

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the RACMO model<br />

(Lenderink et al. 2003) of the Royal Netherlands<br />

Meteorological Institute, the RCAO model (Räisänen et al.<br />

2002) of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological<br />

Institute, the REMO model (Jacob 2001) of the Max-Planck-<br />

Institute for Meteorology (MPI) and the RegCM model<br />

(Giorgi et al. 1993a; Giorgi et al. 1993b) used by the Abdus<br />

Salam Internati<strong>on</strong>al Centre for Theoretical Physics. Within<br />

PRUDENCE two RCM simulati<strong>on</strong>s were performed by each<br />

participating RCM. A c<strong>on</strong>trol simulati<strong>on</strong> representing<br />

current climate c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s for the period 1961-1990, and a<br />

scenario simulati<strong>on</strong> representing climate change c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s<br />

according to the IPCC scenario A2 for the period 2071-<br />

2100.<br />

One of the tasks of MPI is to perform hydrological studies<br />

that include both their own RCM simulati<strong>on</strong>s and those from<br />

other RCMs. A special focus is put <strong>on</strong> the discharge from<br />

large European rivers. The discharge will be simulated with<br />

the Hydrological Discharge (HD) Model (Hagemann and<br />

Dümenil Gates 2001). The HD model uses daily fields of<br />

surface runoff and drainage from the soil as input to<br />

represent fast and slow runoff resp<strong>on</strong>ses. Practically, <strong>on</strong>ly<br />

total runoff has been delivered to the PRUDENCE database<br />

located at DMI. Thus, it is necessary to perform additi<strong>on</strong>al<br />

analyses to partiti<strong>on</strong> total runoff into comp<strong>on</strong>ents that<br />

represent fast and slow resp<strong>on</strong>ses. This is d<strong>on</strong>e with a<br />

simplified land surface (SL) scheme (Hagemann and<br />

Dümenil Gates 2003) which uses daily fields of precipitati<strong>on</strong><br />

and 2m temperature to simulate the hydrological processes<br />

<strong>on</strong> the land surface. In order to be more c<strong>on</strong>sistent with the<br />

hydrological cycle of the different RCMs, a special versi<strong>on</strong><br />

of the SL scheme is used which additi<strong>on</strong>ally uses RCM<br />

evapotranspirati<strong>on</strong> as input. The simulated discharge into the<br />

Baltic Sea from the c<strong>on</strong>trol simulati<strong>on</strong>s will be validated and<br />

the discharge changes under climate change c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s will<br />

be evaluated.<br />

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