5. Acknowledgments

We wish to thank our colleagues Ralf Podzun at the German Climate Computing Centre, Hamburg, Daniela Jacob at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg and Detlev Majewski at the German Weather Service, Offenbach for making REMO 0.1 available as well as Detlef Hauffe, Uwe Böhm and Karsten Kramer at the Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam for hints and help in carrying out parts of the practical implementation.

We also thank Axel Diehl at the German Weather Service for valuable suggestions concerning the GRIB code.