CORDEX-CORE

Within the CORDEX the Coordinated Output for Regional Evaluations (CORE) activity was initiated to provide a core set of comprehensive and homogeneous projections across almost all CORDEX domains, see here: https://www.cordex.org/experiment-guidelines/cordex-core/

The CLM-Community has per today finished simulations following the CORE-protocol for the following domains :

CORDEX AUSTRALIA (AUS-22)

Model: COSMO-CLM-5-0-15

Institute: CLMcom-HZG

Simulations: ERA-Interim, MPI-M-MPI-ESM-LR-r1 (historical, RCP85, RCP26), HadGEM2-ES-r1 (historical, RCP85, RCP26 ) , NCC-NorESM1-M-r1 (historical, RCP85, RCP26 )

Status: Simulations done, currently being published on the ESGF-node

Contact person: Burkhardt Rockel (burkhardt.rockel@hzg.de)

CORDEX AFRICA (AFR-22)

Model: COSMO-CLM-5-0-15

Institute: CLMcom-KIT

Simulations: ERA-Interim, MPI-M-MPI-ESM-LR-r1 (historical, RCP85, RCP26), HadGEM2-ES-r1 (historical, RCP85, RCP26 ) , NCC-NorESM1-M-r1 (historical, RCP85, RCP26 )

Status: Simulations done, currently being published on the ESGF-node

Contact person: Hendrik Feldmann (hendrik.feldmann@kit.edu)

CORDEX SOUTH ASIA (WAS-22)

Model: COSMO-crCLIM-v1-1

Institute: CLMcom-ETH

Simulations: ERA-Interim, MPI-M-MPI-ESM-LR-r1 (historical, RCP85, RCP26), ICHEC-EC-EARTH-r12 (historical, RCP85 ) , NCC-NorESM1-M-r1 (historical, RCP85, RCP26 )

Status: Simulations done, currently being published on the ESGF-node

Contact person: Silje Lund Sørland (silje.soerland@env.ethz.ch)

CORDEX EAST-ASIA (EAS-22)

Model: COSMO-CLM-5-0-9

Institute: POSTECH

Simulations: ERA-Interim, MPI-M-MPI-ESM-LR-r1 (historical, RCP85, RCP26), MOHC-HadGEM2-AO (historical, RCP85, RCP26 (ongoing))

Contact person: Donghyun Lee (donhyunlee@postech.ac.kr) and Seung-Ki Min (skmin@postech.ac.kr)

Contributing partners from the CLM-Community

ETH Zurich	Silje Sørland, silje.soerland[at]env.ethz.ch
European Commission (JRC)	Alessandor Dosio, alessandro.dosio[at]jrc.ec.europa.eu
KIT Karlruhe, IMK	Hendrik Feldmann, hendrik.feldmann[at]kit.edu
KU Leuven	Jonas Van de Walle, jonas.vandewalle[at]kuleuven.be
Goethe University Frankfurt	Praveen Kumar Pothapakula, pothapakula[at]au.uni-frankfurt.de
Justus Liebig University Giessen	Merja Tölle, Merja.Toelle[at]geogr.uni-giessen.de
CMCC	Eduardo Bucchignani, e.bucchignani[at]cira.it
Israel Meteorological Service (IMS)	Levi Yoav, leviyo[at]ims.gov.il
Pohang University of Science and Technology	Donghyun Lee, donhyunlee[at]postech.ac.kr
FU Berlin	Ingo Kirchner, ingo.kirchner[at]met.fu-berlin.de
Deutscher Wetterdienst	Barbara Früh, barbara.frueh[at]dwd.de
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht	Burkhardt Rockel, burkhardt.rockel[at]hzg.de

Simulation framework

The simulation framework encompasses:

Domains

#	Domain	detailed information on simulation status	Collaboration
1	South America
2	Central America
3	North America
4	Africa	more...	KIT
5	Europe		ETHZ (PRINCIPLES)
6	South Asia		ETHZ, Goethe University Frankfurt
7	East Asia		Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea (POSTECH)
8	Central Asia		FU Berlin
9	Australia		HZG
13	Middle East – North Africa		CMCC, ETHZ, IMS
14	Southeast Asia		ETHZ, J. Liebig University Giessen

Grid spacing
- 0.22°
Simulation period
- ERA-Interim simulation for each domain from 1979-2015
- minimum simulation period 1970-2100 (target 1950)
Driving GCMs
- HadGEM, NORESM and MPI-ESM
Scenarios
- RCP8.5 and RCP2.6
Output
- reduced list of variables (subset of the standard CORDEX output)
- in addition:100 m wind on a voluntary basis
- pressure levels at higher frequencies of different variables
Archive
- standard CORDEX protocol

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