We will present some results from FSU Regional Climate Model for the Southeast U.S. The climate model consists of the FSU Nested Regional Spectral Model embedded within the FSU Global Spectral Model. The global model was coupled to the HOPE ocean model from Max Planck Institute. Both the regional and global models are coupled to a simpled land surface model, and more recently the Community Land Model (CLM).

A series of 12 seasonal (4 month) integrations starting November 1 of each year were done for the years 1986 to 1997. The global model was run at T63 resolution, and the regional model at approximately 40 km resolution over the Southeast U.S. Using the simple land surface scheme, the regional model was able to capture the seasonal precipitation anomalies reasonably well, even in non-ENSO years. The regional model was able to simulate the frequency of higher precipitation events better than the global model. We hope to repeat these experiments using the new land model and present these results as well.