Silvina A. Solman CORDEX SAT - South America CIMA (CONICET-UBA) – DCAO (FCEyN-UBA) CORDEX Science Advisory Team 1 st Session Trieste - Italy, May
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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
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 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: WCRP VAMOS/CORDEX Workshop on Latin-America and Caribbean CORDEX LAC: Phase I – South America 11th-13th September 2013, Lima -Perú
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 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; 40 participants from 18 countries Training activity focused on approaches for developing useful climate-relevant messages for policy development.
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CORDEX- South America simulations RCM/ GCMERA-Interim Histrorical RCP RCP RCP 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
Scientific developements Analysis of the ERA-Interim driven simulations mainly focused on model evaluation issues. On-going analysis of the RegCM4 scenario simulations. 10
Funding No funding available for CORDEX South America!! 11