The 14th General Assembly of the European – Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (EURO-CORDEX) – took place from 22nd to 25th of January, 2024. They also celebrated the 15th anniversary of the EURO-CORDEX initiative.
Read about the meeting at the EURO-CORDEX website.
In Dhulikhel, Nepal the CORDEX South Asia domain held a workshop 18-20 December, organized by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). The workshop brought together providers of climate information, academia, as well as research organizations and provided an opportunity to map the use of future climate projection datasets and understand their needs and priorities with the aim to develop a strategy.
It was a hybrid meeting, however most of the 12 participants attended and presented in person. The presentations by the participants provided an overview of the use of future climate projections. One presentation was made online from the Centre for Climate Change Research, IITM – Pune who provided a technical presentation on “the new CORDEX-WAS simulations: Use of high-resolution global modeling for regional climate studies”. The discussions around specified questions gave very useful input towards the development of the strategy.
The workshop provided an opportunity to re-engage with the institutions such as the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM), Central Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (CDHM), Tribhuvan University which were earlier involved in the institutional capacity building on CORDEX data access and use program. Through interactive sessions, the participants identified the needs and priorities and provided input to develop a regional draft strategy for engagement in the access and use of future climate projections and provision of better tools and services in Nepal. The idea is that this workshop will be followed with similar consultation at a regional level for input into the draft strategy and development of future activities.
More information about the workshop can be found at the website.
The “Climatic hazard Assessment to enhance Resilience against climate Extremes for Southeast Asian megacities (CARE for SEA megacities)” project is the latest activity under the Southeast Asia Regional Climate Downscaling / Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment Southeast Asia (SEACLID / CORDEX-SEA) collaboration.
An inception workshop and stakeholder consultation was held in Bangkok, Thailand in November 2023. You can read the full report from the workshop here:
– We found a very active group of researchers who are interested in collaborating with us for the future CORDEX activities, says Shaukat Ali, Point of Contact for the CORDEX Central Asia domain and one of the main organizers of the workshop.
The workshop contained both talks and seminars that focused on the CMIP and CORDEX datasets, as well as the processing and interpretation of these datasets.
– CORDEX data downloading, data analysis using Climate Data Operators (CDO) and Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS)
– the use of CORDEX data for the impact studies, especially extreme events and climate change and health
– how to communicate their science to policy.
Happy new year! As the new year begin let’s look back on the CORDEX news from 2023. Read, among other things, about ICRC-CORDEX 2023, Coordinated Research Activities Were Discussed at the Polar CORDEX Meeting and CORDEX at EGU23.
The CORDEX office will be unmanned during the period 22 December until 7 January.
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For other CORDEX matters please take a look at the general FAQ , contact one of our Points of Contacts (POCs) or one of our Science Advisory Team (SAT) members.
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See you after the holidays!
Iréne, Lindha, Sophia & Miranda
