The 2nd Workshop of the Flagship Pilot Study (FPS) “Dynamical Downscaling Experiments and Hydrological Modelling for Canada and Mexico” will be held at the Centro del Cambio Global y la Sustentabilidad (CCGS) in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, on November 12-13, 2024.
This FPS focuses on conducting dynamical downscaling experiments for North America—encompassing Mexico, the United States, and Canada—using two of the CMIP6 Earth System Models (ESMs) identified as having the best performance for these regions, based on statistical metrics (Colorado et al., 2018). These ESMs will force the RegCM and WRF models, and their capabilities will be evaluated. Additionally, the FPS will present some results related to the statistical downscaling of CMIP6 models, particularly for southern and southeastern Mexico (Andrade-Velázquez & Montero-Martínez, 2023a, 2023b; Andrade-Velázquez et al., in press).
The objectives of the workshop include providing an update on the project’s current status and outlining the activities necessary to complete it. An open session with local stakeholders will also be held. The event will feature presentations from participants and interactive discussions among the three key groups: dynamical downscaling, statistical downscaling, and hydrology. There will be ample opportunity for open dialogue, focusing on internal communication, project milestones, and strategies for achieving them. Information on data, software, and products will also be shared.
For more details on this FPS, please visit their page.
A report from the workshop will be provided aftet the event.
Author: lindha
Follow up FPS Extreme precipitation events in South-eastern South America meeting
During the Pan American Meteorological Conference (CPAM 2024) at the University of São Paulo in Brazil 19-23 August 2024 the Flagship Pilot Study (FPS) Extreme precipitation events in South-eastern South America (SESA) had a parallel meeting. The aim of the activity was to follow up on the FPS-SESA studies and to keep the work dynamics and collaboration network active. The CPAM is the largest conference in South America during 2024 and it was a great opportunity to share the FPS-SESA activities with the South American climate research community and to network.
13 participants, most of them from Argentina and Brazil, attended the meeting. Seven of them attended in person and six attended remotely including some participants from Spain and Italy.
The two-day activity was held from 21-22 August. The first day was dedicated to sharing and discussing results from the FPS-SESA initiative. Presentations of the ongoing analyses of the FPS-SESA and discussions on the degree of progress of the work were performed in the current six topics. Organization of the work and pending issues were discussed.
The second day was dedicated to advancing the structure of the publications based on the discussions during the previous day. A discussion on future collaborative research and coordinated activities was also conducted.
The main outcomes were that the topics discussed will be prepared as manuscripts to be submitted for publication in the following months. Additional calculations will be performed in order to deepen some of the analyses planned and one additional non-convection permitting simulation (at 20 km) will be conducted by the University of São Paulo group, in order to address the analysis of the added value of convection-permitting simulations in the FPS-SESA experiment.
The Flagship Pilot Study SESA started in 2017 and the main objectives of the SESA has been to study multi-scale processes and interactions (convection, local, regional and remote processes, including the co-behaviour of processes) that result in these extreme precipitation events; and to develop actionable climate information from multiple sources (statistical and dynamical downscaling products) based on co-production with the impact and user community.
You can read more about the FPS SESA here.
CORDEX MAIRS-Future Earth joint workshop on Science-Impacts-Society and Multi-scale Climate-Air-Water Nexus for Sustainable Health, Food, and Energy
CORDEX and Monsoon Asia Integrated Research for Sustainability-Future Earth (MAIRS-FE) have earlier jointly co-organized workshops to enhance the information exchange, learning and collaboration across science disciplines in the Asia region. The next step in this collaborative effort is to organize a workshop which will take place in Beijing at PKU on 17-18 October.
The overall topic for the collaboration is on Science-Impacts-Society and Multi-scale Climate-Air-Water Nexus for Sustainable Health, Food, and Energy. For this particular workshop we will have specific emphasis on how climate change is related to air quality and water scarcity/abundance, which would consequently pose threats to public health and food and energy security. Here is the agenda including the Zoom-link for online participation.
Prior to this workshop the Scientific Forum for Numerical Simulation of Asian Regional Climate Change and Earth System Process will be held at the Suzhou Campus of Nanjing University. 14-16 October. CORDEX is co-hosting and several representatives from CORDEX will be attending the event. Read more about the Forum here.
CARE for SEA Megacities and CORDEX-SEA: A Special Session
Following the training workshop on empirical statistical downscaling (ESD) and urban climate
downscaling in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last May 2024, there will be a special session for CARE
for SEA megacities and CORDEX-SEA on 26-28 November 2024, as part of “The 4th International
Vietnam Conference on Earth and Environmental Sciences (iVCEES-2024)” to be held in Quy
Nhon, Vietnam. Read more about the session, how to submit an abstract and how to register here
This workshop aims:
to coordinate and discuss updates on the empirical statistical downscaling (ESD), and
land surface physics-based downscaling (LSP-DS) activities under the CARE for SEA
megacities project;
to coordinate and discuss updates on the CMIP6 downscaling activities of CORDEX-SEA
and identify opportunities for collaboration with similar initiatives in Southeast Asia; and
to provide a platform for engagement between climate researchers and stakeholders.
Read more about the session, how to submit an abstract and how to register in the pdf above or at the conference website.
CORDEX Africa strategic meeting
On 26 June CORDEX Africa held a strategic meeting online with 20 persons attending, all involved in the CORDEX Africa community in different ways. The objectives for this meeting were to outline priorities for future activities and make a draft master plan for the coming years.
Several topics to address were defined such as the need to strengthen the assessment of observed climate trends in Africa and the need for attribution studies on high impact events across the African regions to distinguish whether they are driven by climate change or not. Moreover, CORDEX Africa can address regional climate risks and vulnerability in various sectors and support decision makers. This underlines the necessity to develop a strong connection with the VIA community in each African region. Strengthening the practice of artificial intelligence could also be an opportunity for downscaling in the CORDEX Africa community.
Besides the scientific discussions the new North African team presented themselves and part of the meeting was also dedicated to the planning of an in-person/hybrid workshop, planned to be held in 2025. There is a need for a CORDEX Africa workshop/conference to continue the discussions and define future directions for the CORDEX Africa community and also to connect with other actors. The organization of this workshop will proceed and when more details are set the information will be spread within the CORDEX community.
CORDEX input to CMIP7 Data request: Phase 1 Community Consultation
As part of CORDEX role in the Seventh Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP7) Impacts and Adaptation Data Request Author Team, we wanted to alert you to the ongoing public request that will determine the variables produced and made available in the next generation of climate model intercomparisons. CMIP7 is looking for inputs on variable priorities as well as proposals for new variables that would facilitate new areas of research and application. These represent requests to the climate modeling groups that will have to put in work to produce, process, and make these outputs available for use in our work. CMIP7 is encouraging requests to be framed as “opportunities” whereby climate modelers will see the appeal in producing additional variables and variable groups because of the research and applications they allow. This is a chance for CORDEX to help set the stage for improved regional and local downscaling possibilities for the next decade, which will be a critical period for climate risk assessments and climate action planning around the world.
To help propose and prioritize new variables and application opportunities, please visit this Mural Board (you can log in as a visitor). There you will find instructions for providing inputs about variable groups associated with climate model output applications that you would like to undertake in the years ahead. We will be collecting information through mural boards for each major impacts sector (best navigated through the outline bubble button available at the top-right of the screen) as well as climate services and an ‘other’ board where you can tell us about applications that don’t fit neatly into one of those categories. For CORDEX downscaling/modelling, we should mostly put our inputs into the ‘Misc/Other Board’. For other CORDEX activities give your input into any of the other board that is relevant. We will then collate each mural board into representative inputs to the CMIP7 data request process, which we will help write up as part of an Impacts and Adaptation Data Request paper for a CMIP7 special issue. The more precise information you give us in the Mural Board, the better — if something is unclear we may follow up via email to clarify your requests. It also helps to have a lot of CORDEX inputs so that our community can better motivate the global climate modelers to give us the variables we need.
We would appreciate your timely inputs, as real-time public consultation will remain open until September 8th.