%0 journal article %@ 1991-959X %A Will, A., Akhtar, N., Brauch, J., Breil, M., Davin, E., Ho-Hagemann, H.T.M., Maisonnave, E., Thuerkow, M., Weiher, S. %D 2017 %J Geoscientific Model Development %N 4 %P 1549-1586 %R doi:10.5194/gmd-10-1549-2017 %T The COSMO-CLM 4.8 regional climate model coupled to regional ocean, land surface and global earth system models using OASIS3-MCT: description and performance %U https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1549-2017 4 %X OASIS3-MCT remains below 7% of the CCLM stand-alone cost for all couplings investigated. This is in particular true for the exchange of 450 2D fields between CCLM and MPI-ESM. We identified remaining limitations in the coupling strategies and discuss possible future improvements of the computational efficiency.