NUKLEUS

Useful Local Climate Information for Germany - NUKLEUS

Sub-project TUD: Use-Specific Interfaces for Climate Impact Models (NUS)

Project duration: April 2020 – May 2023

Project description:

The sub-project NUKLEUS-NUS of the TU Dresden (TUD) focuses on the definition of use-specific interfaces between regional climate models and local atmospheric and impact models in order to provide consistent and connectable climate information according to the needs in the model regions. In accordance with the prioritization of sectors and application purposes in the regions, TUD will carry out targeted model simulations. Sensitivity studies with selected microscale models should quantify the effects of initial and boundary data from the regional climate models with different spatial-temporal references. The resulting ranges of uncertainty for the model outputs, together with the specifications from the model regions, result in a catalog for the processes, target values and resolutions that have to be taken into account in regional climate modeling and in its evaluation.

Working group at the Chair of Meteorology, TU Dresden:

Dr. Astrid Ziemann (PI), Dr. Klemens Barfus (scientific supervisor), Prof. Dr. Christian Bernhofer (scientific supervisor)

Co-operation partners:

Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG)*, **, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)*, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH (DKRZ), Universität Würzburg (UW), Brandenburgische Technische Universität (BTU), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU)

* Lead partners, co-ordination, ** Two institutes: Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) and Institute for Coastal Research (IfK)