10 Antarctica

CORDEX Antarctica

The Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) is a strategic approach to understand the regional climate changes and the fidelity of climate models. It provides a common modeling framework, where  different groups from all over the world are participating. As a part of the program, CORDEX ANTARCTICA domain is intended to establish a common ensemble of climate projections for ANTARCTICA.

Model domain

Contributing partners from the CLM-Community   

• Alexandra Gossart (KU Leuven)
• Niels Souverijns (KU Leuven)

Simulations performed or planned by the CLM-Community

Runs at 0.22° (approx. 25 km)

An evaluation run is planned by KULeuven using ERAinterim data as boundary forcing for the time period 1987 - 2017. It is a high resolution run at 0.22° (approx. 25 km) with 295 x 295 grid points (see the figure).

An ensemble of climate projections with different GCMs and scenarios is planned to be employed.

Model Setup

• Version: int2lm_131101_2.00_clm3 / cosmo_131108_5.00_clm6
• Configuration outputs of the ERA-Interim driven simulation:
  • COSMO-CLM YUSPECIF (not yet available)
  • INT2LM OUTPUT (not yet available)

References