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CORDEX Mediterranean

Within the MED-CORDEX and HYMEX projects several institutes all over Europe are investigating regional climate simulation in the Mediterranean.

Model domain

For the Mediterranean, the simulations are performed on a rotated grid with the pole at 162°W longitude and 39.25°N latitude. The domain covers approximately the region from about 27°W to 58°E longitude and 21°N to 60°N latitude.

For MED-CORDEX the simulations were carried out mainly on a resolution of 0.44° (approx. 50 km) to enable a large ensemble. Several modeling groups perform simulations with about 10-km horizontal grid distance. For example, the ERA-Interim driven evaluation run using COSMO-CLM has also been performed with a grid-spacing of 0.088° (approx. 9 km).

Contributing partners from the CLM-Community

GUF Bodo Ahrens

Highlights

Simulations performed by the CLM-Community

Runs at 0.44° (approx. 50 km)

Evaluation runs were performed at the Goethe University Frankfurt using ERA-Interim data as boundary forcing for the time period 1989 - 2008 using the same COSMO-CLM configuration as for EURO-CORDEX, and for 1979-2012 with the CORDEX-Africa configuration. The climate projections are carried out using the COSMP-CLM configuration as also used for the CORDEX-Africa simulations.

Higher resolution runs at 0.088°

At the Goethe University Frankfurt an additional evaluation run with the EURO-CORDEX configuration using ERA-Interim data as boundary forcing was performed for the time period 1989 - 2008.

Model Setup

0.44 simulation

Version: INT2LM1.10_clm6 (ERA-Interim) and INT2LM1.20_clm3 (scenarios) / CCLM4.8_clm18

Configuration outputs of the ERA-Interim driven simulation:

  COSMO-CLM YUSPECIF 

  INT2LM OUTPUT 

0.088 simulation

Version: INT2LM1.10_clm6 / CCLM4.8_clm18

Configuration outputs of the ERA-Interim driven simulation:

  COSMO-CLM YUSPECIF 

  INT2LM OUTPUT