Transcript CORDEX Science Advisory Team

CORDEX Science Advisory Team:
1st Session
16-17 MAY 2014
ICTP, TRIESTE. ITALY
Climate Studies Group Mona
The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Central America/ Caribbean
UPDATE
CORDEX Central America domain
Extends almost
to the African
coast
Includes the North
America monsoon core,
but not northern extent.
Does not include the Bolivian high
Arritt (2012)
Workshops
 First WCRP VAMOS/CORDEX Workshop on Latin
America and the Caribbean (CORDEX LAC) Phase I –
South America at Lima, Perú; September 11-13, 2013
 WCRP VAMOS/CORDEX Workshop on Latin America
and the Caribbean (CORDEX LAC) Phase II – The
Caribbean in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; April
7-9, 2014
 Sponsors: WCRP; ICSU-ROLAC; the Inter-American
Institute on Global Change Research (IAI); Caribbean
Community Climate Change Centre (5Cs)
CORDEX – ICCS3
 WGRC Side Event at the International Conference
on Climate Services 3; December 3, 2013; Jamaica
 Regional climate science and robust foundations for
climate services – what does the CORDEX initiative have
to offer climate service providers and users?
Some Experiments
Model
Driving Data
Period
References
RegCM4
ERA-Interim
1982-2008
Fuentes-Franco et
al. (2013)
RegCM4
HadGEM-ES
- Historical
- RCP8.5
RegCM4
MPI-ESM-MR
- Historical
- RCP8.5
1970-2005
2005-2100
1970-2005
2005-2100
Fuentes-Franco –
ICTP
Fuentes-Franco –
ICTP
Caribbean Climate Modelling Initiative
 Climate Studies Group Mona, Department of Physics, University of the
West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
 Instituto de Meteorología de la República de Cuba, Habana, Cuba.
 Department of Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics, University
of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.
 Department of Infrastructure, Antom de Kom University of Suriname
 Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belize
 Newer partners: Guadeloupe, University of the West Indies - Trinidad
Collaboration
Coordinated Science approach
PRECIS – Caribbean Project
Caribbean Climate Modelling Initiative Plans
 Experience in setting up experiments with PRECIS –
ERA-Interim, A2, B2, Perturb Physics Experiments
 Plans are being finalized for the use of PRECIS,
RegCM4 and/or WRF for CORDEX
 One run completed with WRF (ERA-Interim)
 Challenge: Storage of data generated
CORDEX Central America domain
 In past a number of other groups had plans for
simulating the Central America / Caribbean
domain:

State University of Ceará (A. Costa, RAMS)

UK Met Office (W. Moufouma-Okia, HadGEM3-RA)
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CSIRO (J. Katzfey, CCAM)
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SMHI (?)
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Iowa State Univ (R. Arritt, RegCM4)