This paper analyzes the capabilities of the regional climate model COSMO-CLM to simulate the main features of the observed climate over the entire Italian domain. Two simulations on the period 1971-2000, driven by ERA40 Reanalysis and by the CMCC-MED global model respectively, have been...

In Turco et al. (2013a, [19]), three MOS methods (Linear-Scaling, Quantile-Mapping and MOS Analog) have been proposed and they have shown skill to downscale daily precipitation outputs of the ERA40-driven COSMO-CLM model over three Italian domain (Orvieto, Po river basin, Sardinia). This study...

This study presents the results of a dynamically downscaled high resolution (about 8 km) climate simulation over Italy, produced with COSMO-CLM model, forced by ERA-Interim reanalysis and covering the time period from 1979 to 2011. Model results have been analysed in terms of two-meter...