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Croatian Adriatic coast is often affected by extreme precipitation that leads to flash-floods with severe damage, both human and material. The added value of high-resolution regional climate model (RCM) simulations of mean and extreme precipitation has already been proven, but RCMs' skill over complex terrain, such as coastal mountains in Croatia, still poses some challenges and open questions. We evaluate the daily precipitation simulations of high-resolution (0.11°) RCM ALADIN-Climate versions 5.2 (ALD5) and 6.3 (ALD6) driven by the ERA-Interim reanalysis over the Med-CORDEX domain. The spectral nudging technique (SN) was applied on both model versions (AD5SN, ALD6SN). Reference datasets used are precipitation analysis system MESCAN, available on 5.5 km resolution every 6 h, and 24 h accumulated precipitation data from the Croatian raingauge network. To assess the agreement between model and reference we perform statistical analysis in terms of multi year spatial bias for the mean annual and seasonal precipitation, the number of wet days, the 99.9th quantile, and the quantile-quantile plots for the period 1979-2012. ALD6SN outperforms the previous versions by diminishing the drizzling effect, with notably less wet days than ALD5 and ALD5SN, and with significantly improved lower precipitation quantiles. All model versions show an underestimation of higher-order quantiles. The spectral nudging in ALD5SN causes an overestimation of the lower quantiles, with minimum difference in higher quantiles compared to ALD5. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Mediterranean region of France are regularly affected by extreme precipitation that often lead to devastating flash-floods, often associated with both human and material damages. The evolution of such events in terms of occurrence and severity with climate change remains an open question.The purpose of the current study is to characterize the future evolution of these heavy precipitating events in terms of occurrence and intensity. A historical simulation (1976 – 2005) will be compare to a future simulation (2071 – 2100) for the RCP8,5 scenario. The CNRM-CM5 global climate is used as driver model. The study also compare climate change simulations from a convection parametrized convection model (ALADIN-Climate) and a convection permitting reginal climate model (AROME-Climate). These simulations were carried out on the domain defined by the CORDEX Flagship Pilot Study "Convective phenomena at high resolution over Europe and the Mediterranean". It is centered on the Alps. This domain allows a good representation of the large scale circulation over the Mediterranean sea that causes convective phenomena in the Southeastern France. The study of changes in spatial distribution and cumulative precipitation will be based on daily and hourly averages and quantiles of precipitation.I would like to share my knowledge on convection permitting regional climate model with interested people. This workshop would be a great opportunity and I hope, I will have the opportunity to exchange with people from this community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]