CORDEX Science Advisory Team: 1 st Session
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16-17 MAY 2014ICTP, TRIESTE. ITALY
CORDEX Science Advisory Team: 1st Session
Climate Studies Group MonaThe University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
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Central America/ Caribbean
CORDEX Central America domain
Includes the North America monsoon core, but not northern extent.
Does not include the Bolivian high
Extends almost to the African coast
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
1970-20052005-2100
Fuentes-Franco – ICTP
RegCM4 MPI-ESM-MR- Historical- RCP8.5
1970-20052005-2100
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
PRECIS – Caribbean Project
Coordinated Science approach
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) CSIRO (J. Katzfey, CCAM) SMHI (?) Iowa State Univ (R. Arritt, RegCM4)