News

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. 

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.

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 here. Deadline to register is 15 September.

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

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.

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

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