1. Silvina A. Solman CORDEX SAT - South America CIMA (CONICET-UBA) – DCAO (FCEyN-UBA) CORDEX Science Advisory Team 1 st Session Trieste - Italy, 16 1-17 May 2014 1

2. CORDEX –South America  Recent activities  Scientific developments  Data dissemination  Funding 2

3. Recent activities ICSU Grant (May 2013-April 2014) WCRP in parternship with CLIVAR/VAMOS (Co -sponsored by: IAI, 5Cs and WCRP) Regional Climate Downscaling over South America, Central America and the Caribbean: A coordinated effort to pursue Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation studies in the region  2 Training Workshops 3

4. ICSU WCRP VAMOS/CORDEX Workshop on Latin-America and Caribbean CORDEX LAC: Phase I – South America A partnership between CLIVAR/VAMOS and CORDEX 11th-13th September 2013, Lima -Perú Hosted by the IGP (Lima, Perú) 4

5. 5 70 participants from 19 countries (50% were early- career scientists) Main outcomes Identify VIA, climate modelling on-going studies and user knowledge needs within the region ; Develop a regional network from Latin America and the Caribbean communities; Training participants on identifying vulnerability and risk, developing skills in integrating and communicating climate related risk and the appropriate policy responses; CORDEX-LAC mailing list: cordexlac_list@cima.fcen.uba.ar WCRP VAMOS/CORDEX Workshop on Latin-America and Caribbean CORDEX LAC: Phase I – South America 11th-13th September 2013, Lima -Perú http://www.cima.fcen.uba.ar/LAC-CORDEX/

6. 6 WCRP VAMOS/CORDEX Workshop on Latin-America and Caribbean CORDEX LAC: Phase II – The Caribbean A partnership between CLIVAR/VAMOS and CORDEX 7th-9th April 2014, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Hosted by the ONAMET (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)

7. 7 WCRP VAMOS/CORDEX Workshop on Latin-America and Caribbean CORDEX LAC: Phase II – The Caribbean 7-9 April 2014, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Main outcomes  Improved training and analysis skills;  Enhanced synthesis and relevance of regional climate information and projections;  Improved understanding of potential vulnerabilities and impacts of global change at the regional scale; http://www.cima.fcen.uba.ar/LACII-CORDEX/ 40 participants from 18 countries Training activity focused on approaches for developing useful climate-relevant messages for policy development.

8. CORDEX –South America  Recent activities  Scientific developments  Data dissemination  Funding 8

9. CORDEX- South America simulations RCM/ GCMERA-Interim 1979-2008 Histrorical 1950-2005 RCP8.5 2006-2100 RCP4.5 2006-2100 RCP2.6 2006-2100 REMO/MPI-ESM ✔✔✔✔ LMDZ/IPSL-CM5A ✔✔✔ RCA/EC-Earth ✔✔✔✔ RegCM4/HadGEM2 ✔✔✔ RegCM4/MPI ✔✔✔ RegCM4/GFDL ✔✔✔ PRECIS V2/HadGem ✔ HadGEM3-RA /CMIP5 ✔ COSMO ✔✔✔ WRF/IPSL ✔ ✔ Available at ESGF 9

10. Scientific developements  Analysis of the ERA-Interim driven simulations mainly focused on model evaluation issues.  On-going analysis of the RegCM4 scenario simulations. 10

11. Funding No funding available for CORDEX South America!! 11