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Workshop in Uzbekistan on Climate Data Analyses and Downscaling

27 November 2023

The CORDEX workshop on Climate Data Analyses and Downscaling is held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan this week, 27-29 November.
The workshop is organized by the CORDEX Central Asia domain led by our Central Asia Point of Contact, Shaukat Ali, together with Michelle Reboita from Brazil who is actively involved in the CORDEX South American domain. Around 40 local participants from different parts of Uzbekistan are attending the event.

The agenda includes for instance technical sessions on Climate System & Data Analyses and CORDEX Activities Progress in Different Domains with hands on sessions on How to download CMIP6 and CORDEX data and prepare files as well as a hands on session on Dynamical downscaling using Regional Climate Model. Besides these hands on sessions the participants will also get presentations on CORDEX work both globally and within the different domains. Science to policy communication and future collaboration will be discussed during the last day.

This is the first time a CORDEX workshop is held in the Central Asia domain, while workshops like these are common within most of the CORDEX domains. The workshops are an important part of the CORDEX effort to build capacity and share knowledge about regional climate downscaling and regional climate information.

Coordinated research activities were discussed at the Polar CORDEX meeting

13 October 2023

The annual Polar CORDEX meeting took place in Utrecht, Netherlands on 4-6 October. 25 researchers from Europe, North America and Asia participated in this hybrid meeting. The aim of the meeting was to have scientific exchange of Polar CORDEX and related groups on ongoing research including presentations and discussions.

During the final day plans for coordinated research activities were discussed. One of those activities is an evaluation of Arctic boundary layer stability regimes, their frequency and radiative and mechanical forcing using observations from the year-long MOSAiC expedition. A total of 12 modeling groups have indicated an interest in participating in this model intercomparison. The Cassano group at the University of Colorado will lead this intercomparison effort and presented initial results for the Coupled Arctic Forecast System (CAFS). Participating groups were encouraged to provide their model data by the end of 2023 with analysis of the multi-model ensemble set to begin in early 2024.

A further activity that will be undertaken during 2023/24 is to use a multi-model ensemble of regional atmospheric models to investigate a warm air intrusion event during April 15-16 2020 that was observed by the MOSAiC expedition. This study will have its focus on the boundary layer, air mass transformation, and surface energy budget, and aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions. This activity will be a joint effort between Polar CORDEX and the EU-funded project PolarRES. The models will include atmospheric chemistry-aerosol models.

Follow the ICRC-CORDEX2023 live on the WCRP CORDEX YouTube Channel

20 September 2023

Can’t wait for next week’s CORDEX International Conference On Regional Climate 2023 in Trieste, Pune and online! It will be possible to see some of the conference sessions on the WCRP CORDEX Youtube Channel. Here are the links for each day:

DAY 1

https://youtube.com/live/NsAElRQL9WY?feature=share

DAY 2

https://youtube.com/live/3hHJp14TuCE?feature=share

DAY 3 (Included C1 parallel session)

https://youtube.com/live/hGJ9CG39sag?feature=share

DAY 3 (C2 parallel session)

https://youtube.com/live/yyQJJ0x7bpw?feature=share

DAY 4

https://youtube.com/live/3kjE3hmiM5A?feature=share

7th International Med-CORDEX Workshop successfully conducted

2 June 2023

The 7th International Med-CORDEX Workshop was successfully conducted online on May 15th and 16th, 2023.
The workshop brought together 106 participants from 16 countries, primarily from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

The workshop aimed to achieve several key objectives:
(1) facilitate scientific presentations and discussions to enhance collaboration within the community,

(2) refine the CORDEX-CMIP6 Baseline run protocol,

(3) prepare for the upcoming CORDEX ICRC conference in Trieste,

(4) explore potential new activities within Med-CORDEX, and

(5) introduce the new ocean biogeochemistry and coastal risk communities.

All workshop-related documents, such as the agenda, discussion summaries, and presentations, can be accessed on Zenodo at the following DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7941329.

The next significant gathering for the Med-CORDEX community will be the CORDEX ICRC in September 2023, featuring a side event in Trieste and various sessions relevant to the community. For further information about Med-CORDEX, please visit www.medcordex.eu and explore the Med-CORDEX community on Zenodo at https://zenodo.org/communities/medcordex/.

The workshop was organized by Erika Coppola (ICTP), Samuel Somot (CNRM), Bodo Ahrens (GUF), Gabriel Jordà (IEO), Fabien Solmon (LAERO), Gianmaria Sannino (ENEA), Marco Reale (OGS), Rosh Ranasinghe (IHE Delft), Florence Sevault (CNRM), Pierre Nabat (CNRM), and Emanuela Pichelli (ICTP).

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