38 SESS Report 2020 – The State of Environmental Science in Svalbard How representatve is Svalbard for future Arctc climate evoluton? An Earth system modelling perspectve (SvalCLIM) Ada Gjermundsen 1 , Lise Seland Graf 1 , Mats Bentsen 2 , Lars Anders Breivik 1 , Jens Boldingh Debernard 1 , Risto Makkonen 3,4 , Dirk J.L. Olivié 1 , Øyvind Seland 1 , Paul Zieger 5 , and Michael Schulz 1,6 1 Norwegian Meteorological Insttute, Henrik Mohns plass 1, 0313 Oslo, Norway 2 NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Nygårdsgaten 112, 5008 Bergen, Norway 3 Climate System Research, Finnish Meteorological Insttute, P.O. BOX 503 FI-00101 Helsinki, Finland 4 INAR – Insttute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research P.O. Box 64 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland 5 Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden 6 University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, P.O. Box 1047 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway Corresponding author: Ada Gjermundsen, adag@met.no ORCID number 0000-0002-2053-4689 Keywords: Earth system modelling, Arctc amplifcaton, historical trends, future projectons DOI: htps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4034104 1