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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

Read more about the call and how to nominate here.
Deadline for nominations is 30 June!

The CARE for SEA megacities project of CORDEX Southeast Asia (CORDEX SEA) held an in person three-day training workshop on empirical statistical downscaling (ESD) and urban climate downscaling in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 14-16 May 2024.

Following the inception workshop and stakeholder consultation last year, the training workshop was primarily for members of the CARE for SEA megacities project team, who will be conducting the urban downscaling simulations. The workshop had both lecture and hands-on sessions on ESD, Land Surface Physics-Based Downscaling (LSP-DS) and urban modelling, which will be used in generating city scale climate hazard information for the CARE for SEA megacities project.

The full report can be read here:

On the 14-16 of May two workshops are planned within the CORDEX domains.

The CARE for SEA megacities: Training Workshop will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Following the inception workshop and stakeholder consultation in Bangkok, Thailand last
November 2023, a three-day training workshop on empirical statistical downscaling (ESD) and
urban climate downscaling will be held. The training workshop is primarily for members of the CARE for SEA
megacities project team, who will be conducting the urban downscaling simulations.

The workshop aims:

• to introduce city-scale urban modeling approaches, including empirical statistical
  downscaling (ESD), Land Surface Physics-Based Downscaling (LSP-DS), and Weather
  Research and Forecast-Urban (WRF-Urban);
• to build capacity of CARE for SEA megacities research team in applying different
  downscaling methods, in preparation for the generating city-scale climate change
  projections for SEA megacities;
• to discuss city-scale resolution downscaling framework for SEA, including protocol for
  ESD simulations, specifically for CORDEX-SEA.

On the other side of the world the 8th Med-CORDEX International workshop will be held in Rome, Italy.

The main goal of the workshop is to foster scientific exchanges among the Mediterranean regional climate
modelling community and to configure the near-future of Med-CORDEX in the global context of climate research.

The participants are invited to present their works on the following topics:

• First results based on the Med-CORDEX-CMIP6 baseline run
• New advances in regional climate modelling
• Climate impacts
• Impacts on the coastal zones and coastal cities
• Ocean biogeochemistry at climate scales

For further information on the Med-CORDEX international workshop, please refer to www.medcordex.eu
or contact the Med-CORDEX Steering Committee (medcordex-sc@meteo.fr)