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Would you like a summary of what happened in CORDEX during 2024? Read the newsletter report!

CORDEX has now launched our new logo that was agreed by the CORDEX Science Advisory Team at the SAT meeting in September 2024.
The new logo has been developed to align with the new WCRP logo and brand identity but still keep the characteristic parts of the CORDEX logo.

The different version of the new logo can be found under Logos. We will continue to roll out the new logo over the next few weeks.
SAT member Melissa Bukovsky designed the logo using the WCRP branding and Narelle Van Der Wel at the WCRP Secretariat has kindly helped with the production.

It is with great sadness that we from the CORDEX community have learned of the passing of Dr. Linda Mearns from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR). She was a dedicated geographer and climate scientist who was highly engaged with CORDEX since the beginning. She also led the development of the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP), the precursor to North American CORDEX. For many years, Linda served as a Point of Contact for CORDEX North America and worked hard to organize CORDEX-CMIP5 for the region. She also contributed through presentations and valuable discussions at several CORDEX conferences, including a talk on NA regional modeling at the Trieste conference in 2023 (at 8 h 15 min 30 sec).

In April 2024, NSF NCAR honoured Linda with the Mearns Symposium to celebrate the magnitude of her career impact.

Her wit, wisdom, dedication, and mentorship have left a lasting impact on all who had the privilege of knowing her, and she will be missed by many.

If you would like to share your own remembrances of Linda, please feel free to add them to this document over the next week (please note that you will need to first request edit access, but please do not hesitate to do so).  It will be published on the NSF NCAR Colleagues We Will Miss page in the near future.

In September the CORDEX Science Advisory Team met in Santander, Spain and online for an extended meeting to move forward in the restructuring of CORDEX, including selecting new SAT members and defining responsibilities. There was also an open part of the meeting that aimed to involve the CORDEX community in the discussions on the newly established Task Forces, new scientific topics, challenges, collaborations with various WCRP activities as well as with non WCRP initiatives and future plans.

Read the report here

At the 4th International Vietnam Conference on Earth and Environmental Sciences (iVCEES-2024) in Quy Nhon, Vietnam during 26-28 November 2024, CARE for SEA Megacities and CORDEX-SEA had a special session.

The aim of the session was 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 and 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 also to provide a platform for engagement between climate researchers and stakeholders.

You can read the report from the session here:

The International Project Office for CORDEX would like to thank the CORDEX community for all the valuable work during 2024 and also wish all of you:
Happy Holidays!

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