Abstract. In the framework of the KlimAdat national project, the Hungarian
Meteorological Service (OMSZ) is aiming to perform 10 km horizontal
resolution simulations with the 2015 version of the REMO regional climate
model over Central and Eastern Europe. The long-term simulations were
preceded by a 10-year long sensitivity study on domain size, which is
summarised in this paper. We selected three different domains embedded in
each other, which contain the whole area of the Danube and Tisza river
catchments. Lateral boundary conditions were obtained from the 50 km
resolution REMO driven by the MPI-ESM-LR global climate model. Simulations
were performed for the period of 1970–1980 including 1-year spin-up.
Monthly and seasonal means of daily 2 m temperature, precipitation sum and
several precipitation indices were evaluated. Reference datasets were E-OBS
19.0 and CarpatClim-HU. We can conclude, that the selection of domain size
has a larger impact on the simulation of precipitation, and in the case of
the seasonal mean of the precipitation indices, the differences amongst the
results obtained on each model domain exceed 10 %. In general, the
smallest biases occurred on the largest domain, therefore further long-term
simulations are being produced on this domain.