A 140-year simulation of European climate with the new version of the Rossby Centre regional atmospheric climate model (RCA3)

This report presents the latest version of the Rossby Centre regional atmospheric model, RCA3, with focus on model improvements since the earlier version, RCA2. The main changes in RCA3 relate to t ...

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