CORDEX Australasia

Model domain

For Australasia, 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. The simulation were carried out with a grid spacing of 0.44° (approx. 50 km). For more information visit the wiki-page on CORDEX-Australasia.

Contributing partners from the CLM-Community

• Burkhardt Rockel (HZG, Geesthacht)

Simulations performed or planned by the CLM-Community

Runs at 0.44° (approx. 50 km) 

An evaluation run was performed at Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht using ERA-Interim data (Dee et al., 2011) as boundary forcing for the time period 1979 - 2010. To establish an ensemble of climate projections different forcing GCMs and scenarios listed in the table below were employed.

Model Setup

• Version: int2lm_101210_1.15_clm4_alb / cosmo4.8_clm17-clm3.5_br1 (CCLM coupled with CLM)
• Configuration outputs of the ERA-Interim driven simulation:
  • COSMO-CLM YUSPECIF 
  • INT2LM OUTPUT 

Simulations performed or planned for CORDEX-CORE

For CORDEX-CORE simulations will be performed with cosmo5.0_clm15 with a resolution of 25 km (AUS-22)

Model setup

• Version: int2lm_180226_2.05_clm2 / cosmo_131108_5.00_clm15
• Configuration outputs of the ERA-Interim driven simulation:
  • COSMO-CLM: YUSPECIF (not yet available)
  • INT2LM: OUTPUT (not yet available)

Model Setup

• Version: int2lm_180226_2.05_clm2 / cosmo_131108_5.00_clm15
• Configuration outputs of the ERA-Interim driven simulation:
  • COSMO-CLM YUSPECIF (not yet available)
  • INT2LM OUTPUT (not yet available)

References

VIRGILIO, G., EVANS, J. P., DI LUCA, A., OLSON, R., ARGÜESO, D., KALA, J., ANDRYS, J., HOFFMANN, P., KATZFEY, J. J., ROCKEL, B., 2019: Evaluating reanalysis-driven CORDEX regional climate models over Australia: model performance and errors. Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-019-04672-w.

Conferences

Rockel, B. (2013): CCLM contribution to CORDEX Australasia: results from evaluation and scenario simulations. International Conference on Regional Climate – CORDEX 2013, Brussels, Belgium, 4 – 7 November 2013