Polar CORDEX focuses on both Arctic and Antarctic RCM simulations; details: www.climate-cryosphere.org/activities/targeted/polar-cordex.

Science Highlight
Swings in surface net longwave radiation (LWN) are consistent with advection of warm, moist air trapping a low, liquid-bearing cloud layer, followed by a drying and subsequent low-cloud dissipation. The simulations also reveal distinct transitions between the three periods, although to various degrees. Critical to the processes driving the surface energy balance is that most models did not transition to large LWN deficits, reflective of clear or intermittently cloudy skies, during the post-event period as indicated in the observations.

Observed and modeled percentile ranges of LWN for 3 one-week periods pre, during, post warm, moist advective event during ACSE2014 campaign.

2019 Highlights

The annual Polar CORDEX meeting scientific presentations focused on following key topics: (i) Surface mass balance of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets – changes and key drivers. According model inter-comparisons have been accomplished. Simulated recent and future climate change over the Antarctic Peninsula region was presented. (ii) Coupled modeling, its challenges and benefits. For the Arctic, results from atmosphere-ocean models with respect to cyclones and their feedbacks, and improved model physics have been presented. The intra-annual prediction of Arctic sea ice is a promising new capability. For Antarctica, efforts towards coupling the atmosphere with ocean and ice sheet components have been presented. (iii) Model evaluation. Studies over Greenland and near Svalbard were presented. For the Arctic Ocean, a multi-model intercomparison with the ACSE2014 campaign data has been accomplished. Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice lead data sets have been compiled. (iv) Challenges of high resolution downscaling: Impacts of sea-ice forcing, different physics, resolution, uncertainty assessment, methods to select CMIP6 models.

2019 selected publication

Sedlar et al., 2019: Confronting Arctic troposphere, clouds and surface energy budget representations in regional climate models with observations, JGR, in review

Although lack of funding meant it was not possible to run another workshop series as in 2017/2018 at least nine papers were produced during 2019 by CORDEX-Africa participants, some of which were presented at the ICRC 2019 meeting in Beijing. These papers are detailed on the Cordex-Africa website under the Publications link. Two of these papers were from the VIA community of CORDEX-Africa, and we are very happy to have had excellent collaboration between climate and VIA specialists in the production of the papers. There is continued collaboration between the climate science and VIA cohorts with 3 papers in varying stages of completeness currently being written.

Additionally, a very detailed step-by-step tutorial on how to download CORDEX-Africa data from the ESGF has been written an placed on the CORDEX-Africa web site and numerous emails have been received thanking us for this.

FPS

Two Africa-led FPSs are underway and several CORDEX-Africa affiliates are involved in the European-led ELVIC FPS. A new FPS titled “Modelling the Southeast African regional Climate” was endorsed at the ICRC-2019 in Beijing and will begin in 2020. The FPS titled “Coupled regional modelling of land-atmosphere-ocean interactions over western-southern Africa under climate change“  has not sustained funding to run to completion and has stalled because of this. Further efforts will be made to source funding in 2020 that would facilitate completion of the FPS. In the ELVIS FPS CORDEX-Africa affiliates are involved in the analysis of the simulations being performed over the region.

ICRC-2019

Several CORDEX-Africa affiliates were able to attend the ICRC-2019 conference in Beijing. Representatives from both the climate and VIA communities were present. Oral and poster presentations were made by the attendees and they contributed to the breakout sessions.

IPCC

Several CORDEX-Africa affiliates are involved as Lead Authors and Contributing Authors in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Lead Authors are involved in WG1 Chapters 10, 11, 12 and the Atlas and also in WG2 Chapter 9 (Africa).

GCM RCM table

Currently there is a strategy being developed titles “Australia’s Next Generation Climate

Projections: a report to the National Climate Science Advisory Committee”. This is an ongoing process that will complete mid-2020. CORDEX plays a role in this strategy.

Conference sessions

Conference sessions focused on regional climate modelling highlighting CORDEX were held at the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) annual conference in Darwin Australia 11-14 June 2019; AOGS Singapore 28 Jul – 2 Aug 2019; 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2019) Canberra Australia 1-6 December 2019.

Published papers

Di Virgilio, G., J.P. Evans, A. Di Luca, R. Olson, D. Argüeso, J. Kala, J. Andrys, P. Hoffmann, J. Katzfey, B. Rockel (2019) Evaluating reanalysis-driven CORDEX regional climate models over Australia: model performance and errors. Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-019-04672-w.

1. “Training Workshop of Access and Utilization of Regional

Climate Downscaled Data of ESGF/ SARCCIS of CORDEX Southeast Asia”, 22 January 2019, Bangkok, Thailand

2. Third Workshop of the Second Phase of the Southeast Asia Regional Climate Downscaling (SEACLID)/CORDEX Southeast Asia Project, Manila, Philippines, 10–11 July 2019

3. Workshop of Access and Utilization of Regional

Climate Downscaled Data of ESGF/ SARCCIS of CORDEX Southeast Asia, 3 October 2019, Bangkok, Thailand

4. CORDEX SEA modeling groups in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Philippines are involved in coordinated regional climate downscaling of 5 km x 5 km resolutions over a number of sub-domains of CORDEX SEA domain.

5. Invited to the meeting of the WMO Regional Climate Center Consortium on Nov 16, 2019 in Bangkok and made a presentation on CORDEX SEA ESGF/ SARCCIS Data Portal.

ICIMOD

IITM

• Presented a poster entitled “The Earth System Grid Federation Data Node in India for CORDEX South Asia and CMIP6 Data Dissemination”.
• Provided technical support in Workshop-Oriented sessions to “The Regional Climate Model Evaluation System (RCMES): A Systematic Evaluation of CORDEX Simulations Using Satellite Observations (obs4MIPs)”.

Participated in the Early Career Scientist (ECS) event.

IAP-CAS

WCRP

IITM

• Presented an oral presentation entitled “RCMES Based Statistical Downscaling of CORDEX South Asia RCM Output Over India”.
• Participated in Early Career Scientist (ECS) event.

Rapporteur for the Session on “Third Pole Environment: high resolution simulation/reanalysis and its implication/ application”.

IAP-CAS

WCRP

IITM

Book Chapters

• Krishnan R., A. B. Shrestha, G. Ren, R. Rajbhandari, S. Saeed, J. Sanjay, Md. A. Syed, R. Vellore, Y. Xu, Q. You, Y. Ren: Unravelling Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Rapid Warming in the Mountains and Increasing Extremes. In: Wester P., Mishra A., Mukherji A., Shrestha A. (eds) The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment. Springer, Cham, 2019, pp. 57-97, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1_3

Journals

• Vishnu, S., J. Sanjay, R. Krishnan (2019) Assessment of climatological tropical cyclone activity over the north Indian Ocean in the CORDEX-South Asia regional climate models, Clim Dyn, 53: 5101-5118, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04852-8.
• Mukherjee, S., Hazra, A., Kumar, K. Nandi, S. K., Dhyani, P. P. (2019). Simulated projection of ISMR over Indian Himalayan region: assessment from CSIRO-CORDEX South Asia experiments. Meteorol Atmos Phys 131, 63–79. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-017-0547-4

Senatore, A., Hejabi, S., Mendicino, G., Bazrafshan, J., and Irannejad, P. (2019). Climate conditions and drought assessment with the Palmer Drought Severity Index in Iran: evaluation of CORDEX South Asia climate projections (2070–2099). Clim. Dyn. 52, 865–891. doi:10.1007/s00382-018-4171-x.

• Session A1: Uncertainties and added value. Co-chairs: Tereza Cavazos and Fredolin Tangang. ICRC-CORDEX 2019, International Conference on Regional Climate. 14-18 October, Beijing, China. https://cordex.org/icrc-cordex2019/program/parallel-session-a-advances-in-regional-downscaling/
• Paper-writing Workshop on the Analysis of CORDEX-CORE Climate Projections. ICTP, Trieste, 8-12 Apr 2019. Organizers: Xuejie Gao IAP, China, Tereza Cavazos (CICESE, Mexico), Erika Coppola (ICTP), Local Organizer: Filippo Giorgi. http://indico.ictp.it/event/8653/

Session 31: Climate Change Scenarios in CORDEX Domains. Organizers: Tereza Cavazos, Cecilia Conde, and Landy Sánchez. Scenarios Forum 2019: Forum on Scenarios for Climate and Societal Futures. University of Denver, March 11-13, 2019. https://www.scenariosforum2019.com/

• Cavazos, T. et al., 2019 (Invited talk, A54F-01): Regional modelling studies in the CORDEX-CAM (Central America, Mexico and Caribbean) Domain. AGU 2019 Annual Meeting, 13 December 2019, San Francisco, CA. http://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/512081

Luna-Nino R.B. and T. Cavazos, 2019: Inter-annual variability and trends of the subtropical jet stream over the CORDEX-CAM domain during 1980-2010. RAUGM 2019. 27 Oct-1 Nov 2019, Puerto Vallarta, Jal., Mexico.

Partners:

http://euro-cordex.net/060379/index.php.en

Webpage:

http://euro-cordex.net/

Publications:

For past Euro-CORDEX publications please look at:

http://euro-cordex.net/060380/index.php.en

New EURO-CORDEX member publications in peer review journals – 2019:

1. Berg, P.; Christensen, O. B.; Klehmet, K.; Lenderink, G.; Olsson, J.; Teichmann, C. & Yang, W. Summertime precipitation extremes in a EURO-CORDEX 0.11° ensemble at an hourly resolution, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2019 , 19 , 957-971 https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-957-2019
2. Bülow, K.; Huebener, H.; Keuler, K.; Menz, C.; Pfeifer, S.; Ramthun, H.; Spekat, A.; Steger, C.; Teichmann, C. & Warrach-Sagi, K. User tailored results of a regional climate model ensemble to plan adaption to the changing climate in Germany Advances in Science and Research, 2019 , 16 , 241-249 https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-16-241-2019
3. Cardoso, R.M., P.M.M. Soares, D.C.A. Lima and Pedro M.A. Miranda, 2019: Mean and extreme temperatures in a warming climate: EURO CORDEX and WRF regional climate high-resolution projections for Portugal. Climate Dynamics, 52, 129-157. doi:10.1007/s00382-018-4124-4
4. Casanueva, A., Kotlarski, S., Herrera, S., Fischer, A. M., Kjellstrom, T., and Schwierz, C.: Climate projections of a multivariate heat stress index: the role of downscaling and bias correction, Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 3419–3438, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-3419-2019, 2019.
5. Fernández J., M. D. Frías, W. D. Cabos, A. S. Cofiño, M. Domínguez, L. Fita, M. A. Gaertner, M. García-Díez, J. M. Gutiérrez, P. Jiménez-Guerrero, G. Liguori, J. P. Montávez, R. Romera, E. Sánchez (2019) Consistency of climate change projections from multiple global and regional model intercomparison projects. Climate Dynamics 52:1139-1156
   https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4181-8
6. Kotlarski S., P. Szabó, S. Herrera, O. Räty, K. Keuler; P. M. Soares, R.M. Cardoso et al. 2019: Observational uncertainty and regional climate model evaluation: A pan-European perspective.International Journal of Climatology, 39(9), 3730–3749. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5249
7. Nogueira, M., Soares, P.M.M., Tomé, R., Cardoso, R.M., 2019: High-resolution multi-model projections of onshore wind resources over Portugal under a changing climate. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 136(1-2), 347-362.
8. Kämäräinen, M.; Hyvärinen, O.; Vajda, A.; Nikulin, G.; Meijgaard, E. v.; Teichmann, C.; Jacob, D.; Gregow, H. & Jylhä, K., Estimates of Present-Day and Future Climatologies of Freezing Rain in Europe Based on CORDEX Regional Climate Models, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2019 , 123 , 13,291-13,304, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018jd029131
9. Langendijk, G.S. Rechid, D. and Jacob, D. (2019) Urban Areas and Urban–Rural Contrasts under Climate Change: What Does the EURO-CORDEX Ensemble Tell Us? Investigating Near Surface Humidity in Berlin and Its Surroundings .Atmosphere. 10, 730.  https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10120730
10. Pfeifer S, Rechid D, Reuter M, Viktor E, Jacob D (2019): 1.5°, 2°, and 3° global warming: visualizing European regions affected by multiple changes. Regional Environmental Change (2019) 19:1777–1786, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-019-01496-6
11. Zittis, G., Hadjinicolaou, P., Klangidou, M. et al. (2019) A multi-model, multi-scenario, and multi-domain analysis of regional climate projections for the Mediterranean. Reg Environ Change https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-019-01565-w

New FPS Publications:

FPS Convection:

• Coppola, E., Sobolowski, S., et al., A first-of-its-kind multi-model convection permitting ensemble for investigating convective phenomena over Europe and the Mediterranean, Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1029-2019 , s2018.
• Lavín-Gullón A., J. Fernández, S. Bastin, R. M. Cardoso, L. Fita, T. M. Giannaros, K. Goergen, J. M. Gutiérrez, S. Kartsios, E.  Katragkou, T. Lorenz, J. Milovac, P. M. M. Soares, S. Sobolowski, K. Warrach-Sagi (2019) Internal variability vs multi-physics uncertainty in a regional climate model.under review in Clim Dyn
• Chan et al., Europe-wide precipitation projections at convection permitting scale with the Unified Model”, under review in Clim Dyn

FPS LUCAS:

• Davin et al., Biogeophysical impacts of forestation in Europe: First results from the LUCAS Regional Climate Model intercomparison, Earth Syst. Dynam. Discuss.,https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-2019-4, in review, 2019 (accepted)
• Breil et al., The opposing effects of afforestation on the diurnal temperature cycle at the surface and in the atmospheric surface layer in the European summer, under review in J Clim

• Dynamical Downscaling: Stefan Sobolowski (Uni Research Climate-BCCR), Eleni Katragkou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
• Climate Information Distillation: Douglas Maraun (Uni Graz), Andreas Haensler Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)

Statistical Downscaling: Rasmus Benestad (Norwegian Meteorological Institute), J.M. Guttierez (University of Cantabria

• The description of the Med-CORDEX phase 2 simulations including 5 modelling pillars can be found in Somot et al. 2018b and on medcordex.eu/simulations-phase2.php
• Baseline runs: 11 modelling groups are participating with fully-coupled Regional Climate System Models (RCSM), 10 RCSM are ready to be used, 6 evaluation runs have been performed for this phase 2 as well as 6 historical/scenario runs.
• FPS-convection: 11 evaluation runs are completed over the alpin domain as well as 6 historical/scenario pairs (end of the 21st century, RCP8.5, 10-year time slices).
• FPS-aerosol: simulations have been performed for the 5 defined protocols, in particular 6 pairs of runs are available for protocol 1B (scenario with aerosol climatologies) and 8 runs for protocol 2A (case study with interaction aerosols)
• FPS-airsea: various Baseline runs have been performed and sensitivity tests to the sea representation and air-sea coupling representation are in preparation
• Concerning the Free Modelling Zone runs, 15 modelling actions are listed with model outputs available on request (see the list on medcordex.eu/list-activities_Med-CORDEX-FMZ.pdf)

• Up to now, the Med-CORDEX database (phase 1 simulations) includes 85 datasets, 14 institutes, 7 To uploaded, 36 To downloaded by 250 users
• The Med-CORDEX dissemination can rely on a mailing list of data users, a web page for news, database statistics and an explicit data policy
• The Med-CORDEX phase 1 simulations contribute to MedECC-MAR1 (to be published in 2020), IPCC-AR6 (to be published in 2021) and C3S (simulations to be included in the Climate Data Store in 2020)
• Between 2011 and 2019, 99 scientific articles have been published using Med-CORDEX simulations including a Climate Dynamics special issue in 2018 (list available on medcordex.eu/publications.php)

• The Med-CORDEX Steering Committee includes 6 members from Italy, Germany, France and Spain. The Med-CORDEX SC meets remotely every 2 months.
• The 6th Med-CORDEX workshop was held in Toulouse at the end of November 2019 with 89 participants on-site and 28 remote participants. This is the biggest Med-CORDEX workshop so far. More information here http://www.meteo.fr/cic/meetings/2019/medcordex2019/index.html
• The 3 Med-CORDEX related FPS (convection, airsea, aerosol) had their annual meeting during the 6th Med-CORDEX workshop allowing some cross-FPS fertilization.
• The 3 Med-CORDEX related FPS (convection, airsea, aerosol) have their own emailing list for communication
• The FPS-convection and the FPS-aerosol have their own wiki page on which information can be found concerning the participants, simulation protocol and model outputs
  • https://www.hymex.org/cordexfps-convection/wiki/doku.php

https://www.hymex.org/cordexfps-aerosol/wiki/doku.php

Reference:

Somot S., Ruti P., Ahrens B., Coppola E., Jordà G., Sannino G., Solmon F. (2018b). Editorial for the Med-CORDEX special issue. Clim. Dyn. 51(3):771-777, doi: 10.1007/s00382-018-4325-x, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-018-4325-x

A few more simulations have started in 2018.

Preparation of ESGF data node for EA domain (the service trial is planned to be started in 2^nd half of 2018)

Young-Hwa Byun

KMA/NIMS

Title: CORDEX SEA 1st 2018 Workshop

Venue: Kuala Lumpur

Date: 7-9 May 2018

Objectives:

1. Final workshop of 1st Phase of CORDEX SEA (Launching CORDEX SEA ESGF datanode , final report, outreach)

2. Second Technical Workshop of 2nd Phase of CORDEX SEA of high-resolution simulation

3. Discussion on CORDEX CORE Simulation

·      Will contribute to CORDEX CORE with existing  simulations at 50 km grid spacing

·      Apply bias-correction to the CORDEX South Asia RCM outputs and publish on CCCR-IITM ESGF data node as CORDEX-Adjusted datasets

·      CCCR-IITM is developing a global high resolution (27km) atmospheric version of the IITM Earth System Model for future downscaling activities

–          Apr 2018, Session at EGU Vienna, Austria. CL5.06: Regional climate modeling, including CORDEX. (Filippo Giorgi, Ray Arritt, and Ivan Guettler).

–          Apr 2018, Session at EGU, Vienna, Austria. CL4.12: Climate change and its impacts in the Latin America and Caribbean region (Raymond Arrit, Maria Laura Bettolli , Ruth Cerezo-Mota , Tannecia Stephenson)

–          Modelación Regional del Clima (Ruth Cerezo-Mota and Cuahtémoc Turrent).

–          29-31 Oct 2018, Special Session at UGM, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico: Regional climate modeling and CORDEX (Tereza Cavazos, R. Cerezo-Mota)

–          Creation of an interactive web page with regional climate data for the CAM-CORDEX region (historical trends and historical output from 3 regional models – PRECIS, RegCM4, and RCA, and several observational data sets). Coordinators: T Cavazos and Ruth Cerezo.

–          Submission of an article to Int. J. Climatol.: Inter-comparison of regional climate models and climatic trends in the Central America CORDEX (CAM-CORDEX) domain by T. Cavazos, R Luna-Niño, R. Cerezo-Mota, L.F. Pineda, M. Mendez, R. Fuentes-Franco and E. Valenzuela.

– SMHI/ FUDECOS

– ICTP/ ISU

-IAS/ UNAM, etc.

-CICESE

-CICESE/ UNAM

-CICESE/ UNAM

ICTP/ISU

IAS/UNAM

CICESE/UNAM

CONACYT, Mexico

CONACYT, Mexico

The workshop was run for 3 full days and was officially sponsored by WCRP through GEWEX.

http://www.baltic-earth.eu/mallorca2018/index.html

– The FPS-aerosol group met in Toulouse in 12-13 June 2018

Med-CORDEX will contribute to the MedECC report, that can be seen as a regional climate change assessment report targeting the stakeholders, http://www.medecc.org/

– Concerning scientific publications, the emphasis will be put on multi-model studies using the coupled RCSM scenario simulations (phase 1 and baseline runs) and on the first FPS-related publications.

– Continuation of multi-model analyses for Arctic CORDEX.

– At the moment there are few Antarctic simulations, but the plan is to enable multi-model intercomparison studies.

CORDEX-Australasia happening 6 Feb 2017, partly planning for CORDEX2, potential Flagship proposals etc

CORDEX-Asia ESD session during the International Workshop on Climate Downscaling Studies, 2-4 October 2017, Tsukuba, Japan.

CORDEX Asia ESD Project Meeting, 4 October, Tuskuba, Japan

J. Evans

Koji Dairaku

Koji Dairaku

·    The new information available from CORDEX South Asia are found useful for contributing to the Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment Programme (HIMAP; http://www.icimod.org/himap)

–          Apr 2017: Session on “Dynamic Regional Climate Modeling.”, EGU, Vienna (Filippo Giorgi, Ray Arritt)

–          Nov 2017: Special Session at UGM, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. SE04: Modelación Climática Regional / Regional Climate Modeling (Ruth Cerezo-Mota and Cuahtémoc Turrent).

– ICTP/ ISU

-UNAM/ CICESE

– ICTP/ ISU

-UNAM/ CICESE

* Scientific progress

* FPS: convection and LUCAS

* Guidelines etc

LUCAS FPS-meeting 30/1-2017

the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-TRO) at the Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology (KIT) plan contributions to two FPSs which both are already accepted.

– LUCAS (Land Use & Climate Across Scales) (Lead: Diana Reid, GERICS)

– Convection phenomena at high resolution over Europe and the Mediterranean  (Lead: Erika Coppola (ICTP, Triest, Italy) and Stefan Sobolowski (Uni Research Climate & the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway)

Cordex.be will be submitting data to the ESGF portals soon.

FPS-Convective phenomena at high resolution over Europe and the Mediterranean

Kick off meeting:  3-4 November 2016, Trieste-Italy. Participants from EURO&MED – CORDEX. Aim to further refine the scientific aims, address the concerns of the reviewers and finalize an experiment protocol so that teams can get started in early 2017.

FPS – Impact of land use changes on climate in Europe across spatial and temporal scales

1st telecon planned November 2016 to discuss about details of the experimental protocol.

Kick off meeting: 1 day during the last week of January 2017, Hamburg-Germany. Participants from EURO-CORDEX

IPCC 1.5degree report

Simulations: So far 16 simulations for RCP2.6 in the  EUR-0.11 domain  and 18 simulations for RCP2.6 in EUR-0.44 domain. The simulation table continuously updated.

The Bjerknes Centre is involved in HAPPIMIP, some output available for downscaling with REMO and WRF. Interested persons can contact Dr. Stefan Sobolowski (stefan.sobolowski@uni.no) for more information.

A manuscript in preparation on the +1.5C period using existing Euro-CORDEX data and the IMPACT2C methodology (Sobolowski et al)

A Wiki page was recently opened to collect 1.5degree –related activities.

https://wiki.gerics.de/euro-cordex/1.5CActivities

COST action entitled: “Action on Climate Information Distillation”

During the ICRC-CORDEX 2016 meeting in Stockholm, there was an initiative for a COST action on Climate Information Distillation. A proposal is prepared including EURO-CORDEX participation.

Scientific issues involved (preliminary): error attribution, plausibility checks, process understanding (large and local scales), concepts for linking present biases to future changes, resolving contradictions, exploring deep uncertainties, exploring indigenous knowledge, developing concepts to integrate ensembles and different types of information (incl. deep uncertainties  and indigenous knowledge), communication concepts, understanding scale dependencies

A guide on EURO-CORDEX climate projections and its use is currently in preparation.

CORDEX cross-domain model evaluation pilot-project

EURO-CORDEX expressed interest in participation in the CORDEX cross-domain model evaluation project.

Description: A step towards developing some common ground in model evaluation for CORDEX, by applying a few simple performance metrics across as many domains/models as possible using a handful of relevant satellite datasets and a small number of reanalysis fields.

EURO-CORDEX publications will be uploaded to:

http://euro-cordex.net/060380/index.php.en

Get the postprocessing and compliancy check of the WRF model Klaus Goergenoutputs done so data may go online on ESGF.

Hans-Juergen Paritz

Bert van Schayebroeck

Eleni Katragkou

– Most of the simulations planned in the Med-CORDEX phase 1 have been completed.

111 simulations by 22 different modelling groups including 64 atmosphere simulations, 11 ocean simulations, 6 land-surface simulations and 30 coupled simulations using RCSM (Regional Climate System Models). See the list here https://www.medcordex.eu/simulations-phase1.php).

– List of the scientific publications concerning phase 1 runs: https://www.medcordex.eu/publications.php. This means 77 publications since 2011 including 25 articles in the Climate Dynamics special issue dedicated to Med-CORDEX. 13 manuscripts out of the 25 use a multi-model approach, 13 manuscripts out of the 25 have co-authorship from more that one institute. First authors come from institutes in France (12), Italy (5), Germany (3), Spain (2), Tunisia (1), Greece (1), Croatia (1).

– Med-CORDEX database (https://www.medcordex.eu/medcordex.php) 140.000 files for 7 To of data. Since August 2012, 577.000 files have been downloaded meaning more than 23 To by about 200 users. The Atmosphere-RCM data are being transferred to the COPERNICUS  Climate Data (project C3S_34b_lot1).

– The reference Med-CORDEX article is Ruti et al. 2016 in BAMS and Med-CORDEX simulations were used for the first time in an highly-cited journal Nature Geoscience (Giorgi et al. 2016).

– The organization of the Med-CORDEX phase 2 has been finalized in 2017 with 5 main pillars:

–                                         The baseline simulations using coupled RCSMs including at least the following components: atmosphere, land, river, ocean. The CORDEX framework is kept for these beasline runs with evaluation runs (1979-2018) and scenario runs (RCP8.5, 1950-2100). A common simulation protocol has been finalized. These simulations represent a natural link with the Med-CORDEX phase 1.

–          The FPS convection

–          The FPS air-sea

–          The FPS aerosol

–          The Free Modelling Zone (FMZ) that allows to test the current CORDEX modelling protocols and to explore new ideas.

– Meetings: The 5^th Med-CORDEX workshop was held in Barcelona in July 2017 jointly with the HyMeX workshop and included specific FPS sessions and discussions. In addition, the FPS-convection group met in Hamburg in January 2017 and in Trieste in November 2017.

– Med-CORDEX was strongly involved in the MISTRALS workshop in Montpellier (France) October 2017 dealing with the Mediterranean impacts of climate change

https://cc-mistrals2017.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en

– National projects: ANR REMEMBER (France), MARCO (Spain)