An updated version of the Med-CORDEX-CMIP6 baseline run protocol has been posted recently on zenodo. This protocol concerns only fully-coupled Atm-Land-River-Ocean RCM simulations that is the focus of Med-CORDEX. The document includes the links to the Data Requests for atmosphere, land, river, aerosol and ocean variables. You can find this version here: https://zenodo.org/record/7125233 (this link is permanent and will always point towards the last version of the protocol). All information about this new phase of Med-CORDEX can be found on the community zenodo page; https://zenodo.org/communities/medcordex/
Science Highlights
White paper on CMIP6 GCM selection and Matrix design for EURO-CORDEX published!
Finally, we have published our white paper on CMIP6 GCM selection and Matrix design for EURO-CORDEX.
Please share widely. We also hope this approach and the accompanying tools can be of use for other CORDEX domains.
A huge thank you to all who contributed their time and their ideas to this project.
EURO-CORDEX CMIP6 GCM Selection & Ensemble Design: Best Practices and Recommendations
For questions please contact Stefan Sobolowski stso@norceresearch.no
FOD of the CORDEX-CMIP6 archiving specifications open for comments!
The First Order Draft of the CORDEX-CMIP6 archiving specifications has been developed and is now available for the CORDEX community to comment/give thoughts on.
We would very much appreciate if you would like to take the time to give your comments. The link to the First Order Draft is here: First Order Draft of the CORDEX-CMIP6 archiving specifications
You can leave your comments in this Google form.
If you can´t access Google here is the document in PDF-format:
First Order Draft of the CORDEX-CMIP6 archiving specifications.pdf
and you can send your comments to ipoc@cordex.org
Deadline for comments is 10 March 2023.
Information on CORDEX CMIP6 simulation plans and status is available!!
Dear CORDEX community!
Now the information on CORDEX CMIP6 simulation status is available!!
You can see the regional simulations/downscalings of CMIP that are planned for your domain here
The simulations status is listed as;
• Full list of simulations
• Summary by domain
• Summary by scenario
• Summary by experiment
Thanks to all who has contributed! This simulation status platform will be a living site and evolve as simulations are completed, status changed or new simulation plans are added. To keep this alive we need your help!! Please, give your input here if you want to contribute by adding or updating your simulations.
This page also includes information on the CORDEX CMIP5 simulations available from ESGF, thus providing a live version of the inventory of simulations provided here.
The Empirical Statistical Downscaling White Paper, ESD White Paper, is now published!
The Empirical Statistical Downscaling White Paper, ESD White Paper, is now published! This version of the ESD White Paper focuses on empirical statistical downscaling strategies and identify specific challenges within ESD.
Last year the CORDEX Science Advisory Team (SAT) published the first CORDEX White Paper which primarily focuses on dynamical downscaling and its scientific challenges.
These two White papers will be followed by a third on bridging climate science with society needs. Those papers will form the basis for the CORDEX Science Plan.
CORDEX-CMIP6 Atmosphere Variable List
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.
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