10.5676/dwd/seasonal-epi-de_v2025.01

Title

Seasonal Climate Predictions for Germany (EPISODES) version 2025.01

Citation

Hoff, Amelie; Wehring, Sabrina; Fröhlich, Kristina; Lorenz, Philip; Paxian, Andreas; Kreienkamp, Frank; Früh, Barbara (2025):
Seasonal Climate Predictions for Germany (EPISODES) version 2025.01

Creators

Hoff, Amelie; Wehring, Sabrina; Fröhlich, Kristina; Lorenz, Philip; Paxian, Andreas; Kreienkamp, Frank; Früh, Barbara

Publisher

Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD, http://www.dwd.de/EN/)

Publication Year

2025

Summary

The seasonal climate predictions for Germany are performed with the German Climate Forecast System GCFS2.2 and downscaled over Germany using the empirical-statistical downscaling method DWD-EPISODES version 2022. The seasonal climate predictions for Germany are available on a Germany-wide grid of about 5 km x 5 km. The following variables are included in the data set and are aggregated on a daily timescale: air temperature 2 m (daily mean: tas, daily maximum: tasmax, daily minimum: tasmin), precipitation (pr), relative humidity 2 m (hurs), cloud area fraction (clt), global radiation (rsds), cloud area fraction (clt), sea level pressure (psl), and wind speed 10 m (sfcWind).

The German Climate Forecast System is described by: Fröhlich, K., Dobrynin, M., Isensee, K. et al. (2021). The german climate forecast system: GCFS. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13. DOI: 10.1029/2020MS002101

The empirical-statistical downscaling method EPISODES is described by: Kreienkamp, F., Paxian, A., Früh, B. et al. (2019). Evaluation of the empirical-statistical downscaling method EPISODES. Clim Dyn, 52, 991-1026. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-018-4276-2.

Kreienkamp, F., Lorenz, P., Geiger, T. (2020). Statistically Downscaled CMIP6 Projections Show Stronger Warming for Germany. Atmosphere 11, 1245. DOI: 10.3390/atmos11111245. The latest EPISODES version 2022 contains minor bug fixes and technical updates for climate predictions.

Version

v2025.01

Temporal Coverage

January 2024 to present

Temporal Resolution

3-monthly

Update Frequency

Monthly

Spatial Coverage

Deutschland, DE-0075x005 (Deutschland auf einem regelmäßigen Gitter von 0,075° x 0,05° , ca. 5 km x 5 km)

Data Format

netcdf-4

Licence

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Contact

Zentrales Klimabüro
Deutscher Wetterdienst
Frankfurter Straße 135
D-63067 Offenbach/Main
GERMANY
e-mail: klima.offenbach@dwd.de
Tel.: + 49 (0)69 / 8062-2912

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