NUKLEUS historical reference simulations - CEU3: monthly

Braun, Christoph et al.

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Summary
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This dataset contains a subset of the historical reference simulations of the NUKLEUS ensemble, a convection permitting multi-global multi-regional climate model ensemble. More specifically, it contains the data corresponding to the manuscript "NUKLEUS – A first kilometer-scale convection-permitting multi-model climate ensemble for Germany: Characteristics of the historical simulations 1961–1990" (Braun and Ehmele et al., 2026; available as preprint here: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2517).

The three global climate models being dynamically downscaled via an intermediate step with 12km grid spacing over Europe are EC-Earth-Consortium-EC-Earth3-Veg, MIROC-MIROC6, and MPI-M-MPI-ESM1-2-HR. The regional climate models applied for the downscaling are COSMO-CLM (in versions CLMcom-KIT-CCLM-6-0-clm2 and CLMcom-Hereon-CCLM-6-0-clm2), ICON-CLM (CLMcom-BTU-ICON-2-6-5-rc), and REMO (GERICS-REMO2020). A subset of the data was bias corrected using a quantile(-delta) mapping approach following Cannon et al., 2015 using the gridded observational dataset HYRAS-DE (version v5.0; Rauthe et al., 2013; Razafimaharo et al., 2020) provided by Germany’s National Meteorological Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst). The applied subset of the HYRAS-DE v5.0 dataset is available here: https://dx.doi.org/10.35097/gur5c2ujfp2cj5na . Please note that a more recent version of HYRAS-DE is freely available for research at the Open Data Portal of Germany’s National Meteorological Service DWD (https://opendata.dwd.de/climate_environment/CDC/grids_germany/daily/hyras_de/, last access: 6 August 2026).

The data is provided on a rotated curvilinear grid covering central Europe (CEU-3) except the bias corrected data, which is provided on a regular latitude-longitude grid (CEU-3i). Both grids have an approximate grid spacing of 3km.

Data is provided with different temporal resolution (monthly to hourly) for the following variables:

- precipitation (pr)
- near-surface air temperature (tas)
- daily minimum near-surface air temperature (tasmin)
- daily maximum near-surface air temperature (tasmax)
- eastward near-surface wind (uas)
- northward near-surface wind (vas)

For the different temporal resolutions the following data is provided

- monthly: tas, tasmin, tasmax, pr
- daily: tas, tasmin, tasmax, pr, uas, vas
- daily bias corrected: tas, tasmin, tasmax, pr
- hourly: tas, pr, uas, vas
Project
DKRZ_lta (Long-term Archiving of Climate Model Data at WDC Climate and DKRZ (DOKU))
Spatial Coverage
Longitude 4 to 18 Latitude 45 to 55 Altitude: 0 m to 3720 m
Temporal Coverage
1961-01-01 to 1990-12-31 (proleptic_gregorian)
Use constraints
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Data Catalog
DOKU at DKRZ
Access constraints
registered users
Format
tar-File(s)
Status
metadata only
Creation Date
Future Review Date
2036-08-08
Download Permission
No - Metadata only.
Cite as
[ Derived from parent entry - See data hierarchy tab ]
Braun, Christoph; Feldmann, Hendrik; Geyer, Beate; Beier, Christian; Sieck, Kevin (2026). NUKLEUS - convection permitting historical reference simulation data. DOKU at DKRZ. https://www.wdc-climate.de/ui/entry?acronym=DKRZ_LTA_1203_dsg0001

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NUKLEUS - convection permitting historical reference simulation data
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[Entry acronym: DKRZ_LTA_1203_ds00001] [Entry id: 5371349]