The Polar CORDEX community held another great meeting this year, and this time in Potsdam! There was a good mix of presentations on the latest scientific and modelling advances in the Arctic and Antarctic.
A highlight from this year’s meeting was the development of an ensemble of RCM downscalings of two CMIP6 models over the Arctic CORDEX and Antarctic CORDEX domains. Initial results on model performance shows great potential for the ensemble and it is expected that there will be more exciting results from this ensemble at next year’s meeting. Work is now underway to publish the data on ESGF nodes. Other highlights from our meeting include progress on existing model intercomparison studies and plans for future studies.
It was announced at this year’s meeting that Annette Rinke (AWI) will be resigning from her role as coordinator of Polar CORDEX. Annette has been a coordinator of Polar CORDEX since its inception in 2013. She and her fellow coordinators, John Cassano (CU Boulder) and Andrew Orr (UKRI-BAS), have built a vibrant and strong Polar CORDEX community. The community is very grateful to Annette for her tireless work coordinating and leading our downscaling activities. At the meeting, we were also delighted to announce that Priscilla A. Mooney (NORCE, Bjerknes Centre) will join the coordination team and we look forward to continuing the success of Polar CORDEX with the new coordination team.
Many thanks to all our participants for sharing their excellent work and knowledge with the community, and a very special thanks to Annette Rinke and her colleagues at AWI for hosting us.