Science Highlights

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! 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.

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.

To the web page Data request.