Science Highlights

The CORDEX Science Advisory Team (SAT) invites you to submit new proposals for Flagship Pilot Studies!

This FPS call consists of two parts:

An open part where you suggest a topic of your choice as long as it follows the FPS Criteria & Guidelines

A part dedicated to Climate Risks. Climatic Hazards, and in particular their extremes, are responsible for much of the risk to human and natural systems associated with climate variability and change and often require high resolution models to adequately simulate them including their potential changes due to climate change. These hazards include: tropical cyclones, heatwaves, extreme wind storms, drought, fires and orography induced processes such as extreme rainfall related floods and landslides, downslope winds and convection, amongst others. We here encourage FPS proposals that target risk producing climatic hazards including assessing and improving simulations of the hazard, understanding the projected future changes, and quantifying the added-value that high-resolution/process resolving brings to the simulation of the hazards and their changes. CORDEX SAT would also highly appreciate proposals related to Small Islands challenges.

As indicated in the FPS Criteria & Guidelines the FPS proposals will be reviewed and endorsed by the CORDEX SAT, together with selected external reviewers. Further details on the FPS, together with instructions on how to submit your proposal and an application template, can be found under Experiment Guidelines/Flagship Pilote Studies at the CORDEX website www.cordex.org.

The deadline for applications is Wednesday 21 August 2024
The successful proposals will be presented at the CORDEX web.

The CORDEX experiment design and archiving specifications for statistical downscaling of CMIP6 has been developed. The first draft was reviewed by the CORDEX Science Advisory Team and the second version draft 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 Second version draft is here.
You can leave your comments in this Google form.

If you can´t access Google here is the document in PDF-format  and you can send your comments to ipoc@cordex.org

New deadline for comments is 31 May 2024.

The Second Order Draft (SOD) of the CORDEX-CMIP6 archiving specifications for dynamical downscaling was shared with the CORDEX community in November 2023. We are very grateful to all who have read the SOD in detail and provided valuable comments. The final version of the CORDEX-CMIP6 archiving specifications for dynamical downscaling is ready and hereby we share it with the CORDEX community.

CORDEX-CMIP6 archiving specifications

How to provide CORDEX-CMIP6 data

The First Order Draft (FOD) of the CORDEX-CMIP6 Archiving Specifications for dynamical downscaling was shared with the CORDEX community in February 2023. We are very grateful to all who read the archiving specifications in detail and provided comments. The Second Order Draft (SOD) of the new CORDEX-CMIP6 Archiving Specifications for dynamical downscaling is ready and we share it with the CORDEX community for comments.
Please note that some parts of the specifications are still under development.

You can find the Second Order Draft here

You can leave your comments in this Google form

If you can´t access Google you can send your comments to ipoc@cordex.org

Deadline for comments is 1 December 2023

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/

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