The CORDEX-CORE EXP-I Initiative: Description and Highlight Results from the Initial Analysis
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- Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, (Italy)
- Climate Service Center (GERICS), Hamburg, (Germany)
- Climate Service Center (GERICS), Hamburg, (Germany)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Univ. Innsbruck (Austria)
- National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO (United States)
- Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education (CICESE) (Mexico)
- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (INOGS), Trieste (Italy); Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, (Italy)
- Univ. of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
- Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (Australia)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (Hong Kong)
- São Paulo State University, (Brazil)
- Federal Univ. of Itajuba (Brazil)
- Univ. of Augsburg (Germany)
Here we describe the first effort within the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment–Coordinated Output for Regional Evaluation, or CORDEX-CORE EXP-I. It consists of a set of twenty-first-century projections with two regional climate models (RCMs) downscaling three global climate model (GCM) simulations from the CMIP5 program, for two greenhouse gas concentration pathways (RCP8.5 and RCP2.6), over nine CORDEX domains at ~25-km grid spacing. Illustrative examples from the initial analysis of this ensemble are presented, covering a wide range of topics, such as added value of RCM nesting, extreme indices, tropical and extratropical storms, monsoons, ENSO, severe storm environments, emergence of change signals, and energy production. They show that the CORDEX-CORE EXP-I ensemble can provide downscaled information of unprecedented comprehensiveness to increase understanding of processes relevant for regional climate change and impacts, and to assess the added value of RCMs. The CORDEX-CORE EXP-I dataset, which will be incrementally augmented with new simulations, is intended to be a public resource available to the scientific and end-user communities for application to process studies, impacts on different socioeconomic sectors, and climate service activities. The future of the CORDEX-CORE initiative is also discussed.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- National Environmental Science Program (NESP); USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1884008
- Journal Information:
- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal Name: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 103; ISSN 0003-0007
- Publisher:
- American Meteorological SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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