%0 journal article %@ 2190-4979 %A Gröger, M., Dieterich, C., Haapala, J., Ho-Hagemann, H., Hagemann, S., Jakacki, J., May, W., Meier, H., Miller, P., Rutgersson, A., Wu, L. %D 2021 %J Earth System Dynamics %N 3 %P 939-973 %R doi:10.5194/esd-12-939-2021 %T Coupled regional Earth system modeling in the Baltic Sea region %U https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-939-2021 3 %X Many regional stand-alone ocean and atmosphere models are tuned to suitably represent present-day climatologies rather than to accurately simulate climate change. Therefore, more research is required into how the regional climate sensitivity (e.g., the models' response to a given change in global mean temperature) is affected by coupling and how the spread is altered in multi-model and multi-scenario ensembles of coupled models compared with uncoupled ones.