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UCLM - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
This group within the Department of Environmental Sciences of the Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha (UCLM) in Spain is composed of 4 senior scientists. All of them have considerable experience on atmospheric modelling, as it is demonstrated by the research undertaken during the last 14 years which led to the development of their own mesoscale atmospheric model named PROMES (acronym for PROgnostic at the MESoscale).

A climatic version of such model has been applied in several studies on regional climate change since 1992, as well as on the role of surface characteristics on regional-scale atmospheric circulations in western Mediterranean, in the frame of five EU FP (including PRUDENCE and ENSEMBLES projects, centred on Europe regional analysis of climate change; and CLARIS project) and five national (Spanish) funded projects.

An adapted version of that model is currently used for operational daily short-range weather forecasting at a very high resolution in the Iberian Peninsula. For CLARIS-LPB project, our group is intended to participate in WP1.3 (Regional scale hydroclimate) and WP1.4 (Extreme hydroclimate events).