Please find the first flyer here:
1st Announcement FPS Conference and SAMCAM CORDEX Training 2022
And full information on the event here: https://indico.ictp.it/event/9835/
Please find the first flyer here:
1st Announcement FPS Conference and SAMCAM CORDEX Training 2022
And full information on the event here: https://indico.ictp.it/event/9835/
The North American CORDEX Program in partnership with Ouranos, the National Center for Atmosphere Research, Iowa State University, and Cornell University invites you to join this 3-day VIRTUAL workshop on April 25-27, 2022 | 11 am to 2 pm (North American Eastern Time; 1500-1800 UTC) . The goal of this workshop is to develop a clear synthesis of the current status of storyline research, provide tangible examples of the use of storylines and to illustrate the symbioses with alternative methods of producing applications-relevant climate projections. In that context, we are looking to advance the understanding and applications of storylines obtained from regional downscaling. Registration is open at the workshop web site: https://www.ouranos.ca/en/storylines_simulation/ .
Each day will begin with presentations on key workshop themes on prior work that has been done on storylines to set the stage for this new workshop. This will be followed by shorter presentations by contributed speakers. Break-out groups will be actioned wherein open discussion will be made by participants, followed by a dialogue focused around development of best-practice in key arenas. A tentative agenda has been posted on the website, but watch for speaker confirmations and a final agenda in the coming weeks.
This workshop is designed primarily to enable dialogue, and will therefore take the format of short ‘flash-talks’ (5-10 minutes duration) to illustrate ongoing research and discussions. If you are interested in doing a short presentation, please submit a brief title and short description of your proposed flash talk before March 21, 2022 using the form at the workshop information and registration site: https://www.ouranos.ca/en/storylines_simulation/ .
Melissa Bukovsky
Bill Gutowski
Linda Mearns
Sara Pryor
Dominique Paquin
In December 2021 the international CORDEX office at SMHI in cooperation with colleagues from Mozambique, South Africa and Cameroon held a workshop for thirty participants from thirteen African countries. The aims were to create more collaboration within the CORDEX community over Africa, enlarge existing networks and identify priorities for research activities and further actions.
There is a great need for robust climate information to be able to make well informed decisions. The question is how to define what is robust and what is most pressing? It really comes down to how to produce better and more usable information to assess the impact on various sectors. There might also be a need for a stocktake on local and regional skills, including infrastructure for future capacity planning.
Many of the participants have earlier been involved in workshops, training or CORDEX projects. Some years ago, some of the organizers of this workshop initiated teams for different parts of Africa not only to create networks and exchange but also to build local and regional capacity and knowledge. The overall aim is to expand and further develop these teams and to support exchange between projects and across regions to produce or use climate information.
This workshop highlighed discussions on focus areas to improve what has already been done and to develop new information, and to continue the analysis of differences in impact between 1.5 and 2 degrees global warming.
Impact-based predictions might be one of the ways to adress some of the above questions. There were discussions on what models and resolutions to use for various applications, technicalities in models. Other issues were how to best explain and demonstrate the delicate matter that a model result can be robust and yet it is impossible to give one single exact number – how well the models simulate reality and what the uncertainties of the results are. Since computer and personnel resources are limited there is always a compromise to be done, for instance on what models, variables and methods to choose for evaluation and analysis.
As scientific papers are very important in the scientific world there was also a discussion about what kind of papers could be a result.
The communication aspect is important: What stakeholders to engage with, what platforms to use in order to keep contact with these communities, what way to talk to them and how to look at the broadscale impacts versus the regional and sector specific questions.
One example of tools is the Climate Adaptation Game that is developed by SMHI. In this game various scenarios can be explored while working with narratives, i.e. putting the impacts into perspective. Another exemple of tools is the HYPEWeb for exploring hydrological predictions https://climateinformation.org/
The workshop focused on outlining ideas for applications to develop the framework for cooperation and networking. This includes setting up overarching topics for collaboration, capacity developing activities and exploring opportunities for a pilot study to demonstrate the benefits and use of such a framework and network.
The COordinated Regional climate Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX) – a key scientific pillar in the new core project Regional Information for Society, RIfS, under the World Climate Research Programme, WCRP) and Monsoon Asia Integrated Research for Sustainability-Future Earth (MAIRS-FE) serve as platforms and facilitators for coordination and cooperation to foster understanding, knowledge transfer, involvment of stakeholders and capacity development through research, training, conferences and cooperation initiatives.
Nearly fifty scientists, scholars and other representatives from almost twenty universities and international research institutes around the world exchanged scientific research progress and outcomes and explored cooperation directions on climate, air, and health issues.
Recent research findings and global updates in the field of integrated air-climate-health research and many other relevant fields were shared. The figure below shows the global percentage of casualties for various health conditions attributed to air pollution in 2019.
Also, representatives of international research institutions introduced their research plans and cooperation intentions to explore opportunities for cooperation in the future, including Prof. Zhangcai Qin from the FE Global Secretariat (China), Dr. Giles Sioen and Dr. Ria Lambino from the FE Global Secretariat (Japan), Dr. Iréne Lake and Dr. Ralf Doescher from the CORDEX International Project Office, Prof. Ailikun from Alliance of International Science Organizations (ANSO), Dr. Charlie Navanugraha from the Center of Excellence for Soil Research in Asia (CESRA), and Dr. Linda Stevenson from the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN).
The intention was to include and to get to know more institutions and international research projects, to discover common research areas, and to explore cooperation directions.
Delegates and experts discussed future possibilities within their research fields and research plans, and reached a consensus on the joint construction of a cooperative research network. This international workshop is one of our activities to promote interdisciplinary dialogue and international academic exchanges as well as the active exploration of long-term cooperative relations between multiple institutions and multiple global research projects.
The Second Order Draft (SOD) of the CORDEX-CMIP6 Atmosphere Variable List (VL) was shared with the CORDEX community in January 2022. We are very grateful to all who have read the SOD in detail and provided comments. The final version of the CORDEX-CMIP6 Atmosphere Variable List is ready and we share it with the CORDEX community.
All together we received about 40 comments on the SOD and the first priority has been given to topics with a number of similar comments. We tried to find a balance between requests for providing more variables at higher subdaily frequencies and requests for reducing output size by archiving a number of variables at lower subdaily frequencies. The CORDEX-CMIP6 Atmosphere Variable List has a lot of flexibility to select output variables and their output frequencies to accommodate capacities of different RCM groups.
A tutorial to the CORDEX-CMIP6 Data Request describing how to select output variables and their output intervals and how to archive a number of specific variables is also provided.