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Scientists from all over the world are working on the African modeling CORDEX Africa domain. The different groups are employing different regional climate models as to establish a common ensemble of climate projections as large as possible.

Model domain

For Africa, the simulations are performed on a rotated grid with the pole at 180°W longitude and 90°N latitude. The domain covers approximately the region from about 29°W to 65°E longitude and 50°S to 47°N latitude.

For CORDEX-Africa the simulation were carried out on the rather coarse resolution of 0.44° (approx. 50 km) to enable a large ensemble of climate projections. The ERA-Interim driven evaluation run using COSMO-CLM has also been performed with a grid-spacing of 0.22° (approx. 25 km). One historical run forced by MPI-ESM-LR has also been carried out using the higher resolution of 25 km.

In order to increase the reproducibility of the simulation results and to avoid misinterpretation of the results the COSMO-CLM model grid for the CORDEX-Africa domain is given in the following this table together with the definition of the recommended external parameter data file Image Removed.

Contributing partners from the CLM-Community

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• Version: int2lm_090213_1.9_clm3/ cosmo_090213_4.8_clm17
• Configuration outputs of the ERA-Interim driven simulation:
  • COSMO-CLM YUSPECIF (not yet available)
    
  • INT2LM OUTPUT (not yet available)

Runs at 0.22° (approx. 25 km)

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