Registration open – Polar CORDEX Annual meeting

The Polar CORDEX annual meeting will this year be held in Potsdam, Germany hosted by AWI (Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research). The plan is to hold the hybrid meeting starting on Wednesday 23 October at 2:00 PM and closing on Friday 25 October at 1.00 PM.

There will be 3 sessions: Arctic CORDEX, Antarctic CORDEX and Plans for 2025 plenum discussions, which we will schedule after registration. Presentations are very welcome on all aspects of Antarctic and Arctic CORDEX related research (e.g., processes, recent and future climate change, keep drivers, coupled modelling, model evaluation, multi-model intercomparisons). Time allotted is 10 minutes per presentation (depending on registration).

If you want to attend, please complete the online registration form hereDeadline to register is 15 September.

Any questions regarding the event can be sent to Annette Rinke at annette.rinke@awi.de

The CORDEX office on vacation!

The CORDEX office is unmanned during the period of 6 July to 7 August.

For matters regarding CORDEX data access please see CORDEX data access and/or our FAQ

For other CORDEX matters please take a look at the general FAQ, contact one of our Points of Contact (POCs) or one of our Science Advisory Team (SAT) members.

For more WCRP-related matters you can turn to the WCRP secretariat wcrp@wmo.int.

The call for nominations to CORDEX Science Advisory Team (SAT) is now closed and the nominations are under review.
Decisions will be announced at the earliest in October.

For questions regarding the current Flagship Pilot Study call more information can be found here.
For any further information please contact one of our Science Advisory Team members.

Submit your abstract to the AGU session on Regional Climate: Modeling, Analysis, and Impacts

You are welcome to submit your abstract to the AGU session on Regional Climate: Modeling, Analysis, and Impacts (Session GC122, ID 226308).  AGU will take place in Washington, D.C., December 9-13, 2024.  Abstracts are due July 31st!

Session Abstract: This session focuses on the state-of-the-science in modeling and analyzing regional climate and its impacts across various timescales. We are seeking contributions on coordinated modeling experiments such as CORDEX; new developments in coupled regional Earth system modeling, convection-permitting simulations, and variable resolution approaches; ensemble methods, uncertainty analyses, and methods that innovatively differentiate projection credibility in ensembles; as well as process-informed analyses of climate extremes in observations and simulations.  We are also very interested in innovative methods for evaluating models, including metrics, and especially methods that relate model skill with the reliability of regional climate projections for decision-making.  Plus, we welcome insights from regional models regarding Earth system and coupled human-Earth system processes, IPCC scenario downscaling, and the application of models to understand climate impacts.

The conveners hope to see you there!

Melissa Bukovsky, Ruby Leung, Rachel McCrary, Paul Ullrich, and Eli Dennis

Information for Society: from CMIP to decision makers: Report from EGU24 Townhall

At the EGU24 in Vienna in April CORDEX held a townhall together with CMIP and RIfS on the chain from CMIP to decision makers. There were both shorter presentations and group discussions. The Townhall was designed to understand the challenges of producing information for society based on climate science. This included topics ranging from data access, to the treatment of uncertainty and expert judgement over what constitutes robust, decision-ready information.

You can read the report here

Reminder – call for new members of CORDEX Science Advisory Team (SAT)

Read more about the call and how to nominate here.
Deadline for nominations is 30 June!

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Open call – new proposal for Flagship Pilot Studies!

The CORDEX Science Advisory Team (SAT) invites you to submit new proposals for Flagship Pilot Studies!

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This FPS call consists of two parts:

An open part where you suggest a topic of your choice as long as it follows the FPS Criteria & Guidelines

A part dedicated to Climate Risks. Climatic Hazards, and in particular their extremes, are responsible for much of the risk to human and natural systems associated with climate variability and change and often require high resolution models to adequately simulate them including their potential changes due to climate change. These hazards include: tropical cyclones, heatwaves, extreme wind storms, drought, fires and orography induced processes such as extreme rainfall related floods and landslides, downslope winds and convection, amongst others. We here encourage FPS proposals that target risk producing climatic hazards including assessing and improving simulations of the hazard, understanding the projected future changes, and quantifying the added-value that high-resolution/process resolving brings to the simulation of the hazards and their changes. CORDEX SAT would also highly appreciate proposals related to Small Islands challenges.

As indicated in the FPS Criteria & Guidelines the FPS proposals will be reviewed and endorsed by the CORDEX SAT, together with selected external reviewers. Further details on the FPS, together with instructions on how to submit your proposal and an application template, can be found under Experiment Guidelines/Flagship Pilote Studies at the CORDEX website www.cordex.org.

The deadline for applications is Wednesday 21 August 2024
The successful proposals will be presented at the CORDEX web.