German TV interviews CORDEX co-chair about the release of information sheets based on EURO-CORDEX simulations

The national German TV channel “ARD” contacted GERICS after hearing about the release of the  “Klimaausblicke” (Climate outlooks). In   the news item the reporter says that the data describing climate change in Germany has remained rather coarse in the past. This has now been changed by the publication of the analysis of climate data for each of the German counties by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon / GERICS.

Altogether, 401   “Klimaausblicke” (Climate outlooks) can be downloaded for free to enable counties to prepare for the future.

Daniela Jacob says German counties now have access to detailed knowledge about possible future climate change, which needs to be considered for future planning.  No-one in Germany may say in the future: I didn’t know this.

The “Klimaausblicke” are based on 85 climate simulations (from the EURO-CORDEX community). Different scenarios, which depend on future climate mitigation, have been investigated,.

As an example, climate change information for different indices are given for the city of Karlsruhe located in South-Western Germany for RCP4.5 – representing a ‘middle’ emission concentration development.

Norbert Hacker, head of environment protection and work safety   in Karlsruhe, another guest on this news item talked about the consequences of present day climate change impacts and strategies, e.g., the dying of trees due to droughts and possible measures like watering trees in the city.

To sum up, it is mentioned that the “Klimaausblicke” are based on model simulations for this century carried out in a European effort. The spread shows that future climate change could be stronger or weaker dependent on our mitigation efforts.

After the release of “Klimaausblicke”, Daniela Jacob says that mitigating climate change is essential and that it is now obvious which consequences and related costs can be avoided by mitigating climate change.

 

Links:

TV-Spot of ARD (German television): https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/video/video-886911.html

GERICS press release: https://gerics.de/about/news_and_events/news/102260/index.php.en

GERICS product page (German only): https://gerics.de/products_and_publications/fact_sheets/landkreise/index.php.de

Interactive map: https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/klimawandel-hitze-starkregen-deutschland-karte/

 

 

WCRP CORDEX Report 2020

During 2020 a lot of activites, meetings, publications and workshops was held within the CORDEX community. It is hightlights from the domain reports, development of the CORDEX White Paper, progress within the Flagship Pilot Studies, First Order Draft for the CORDEX experimental design for dynamical downscaling of CMIP6 and much more:

WCRP CORDEX Report 2020.

Draft CORDEX White Paper open for comments

The CORDEX-SAT has developed a White Paper draft on Future Regional Scientific Challenges for CORDEX.
We hereby invite you to give your comments/thoughts on the draft before it is finalized and published.

This is the link to the document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13nRdlwWEP-3-DRmazWruHWrfbMeoFmLV/view?usp=sharing

You can leave your comments in this Google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekAosAtJSqcY79PQCzmUxLehv0yj-EjNaJWeBeakM2jlNhsA/viewform

If you can´t access Google Drive please let us know and we will send you an excel spreadsheet for your comments.
ipoc@cordex.org

The deadline for comments is Thursday 2 July.

New co-chair and new SAT-members!

We are happy to announce that Daniela Jacob is new co-chair for CORDEX.
In addition we would like to warmly welcome Tereza Cavazos och John Cassano as new members of the Science Advisory Team.
With this we thank former co-chair Bill Gutowski and former SAT-member Anne Frigon for their valuable contributions to CORDEX.

To read more about the Science Advisory Team and all members click here