Regional dynamical downscaling and the CORDEX initiative

F Giorgi, WJ Gutowski Jr - Annual review of environment and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
We review the challenges and future perspectives of regional climate model (RCM), or
dynamical downscaling, activities. Among the main technical issues in need of better …

On the use and misuse of climate change projections in international development

H Nissan, L Goddard, EC de Perez… - Wiley …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate resilience is increasingly prioritized by international development agencies and
national governments. However, current approaches to informing communities of future …

Projected change in temperature and precipitation over Africa from CMIP6

M Almazroui, F Saeed, S Saeed, M Nazrul Islam… - Earth Systems and …, 2020 - Springer
We analyze data of 27 global climate models from the sixth phase of the Coupled Model
Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), and examine projected changes in temperature and …

Thirty years of regional climate modeling: where are we and where are we going next?

F Giorgi - Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The year 2019 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the development of the first regional climate
model (RCM), and here an overview is provided of the progress in regional modeling …

What can we know about future precipitation in Africa? Robustness, significance and added value of projections from a large ensemble of regional climate models

A Dosio, RG Jones, C Jack, C Lennard, G Nikulin… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
We employ a large ensemble of Regional Climate Models (RCMs) from the COordinated
Regional-climate Downscaling EXperiment to explore two questions:(1) what can we know …

WCRP coordinated regional downscaling experiment (CORDEX): a diagnostic MIP for CMIP6

WJ Gutowski Jr, F Giorgi, B Timbal, A Frigon, D Jacob… - 2016 - gmd.copernicus.org
The Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) is a Diagnostic MIP in
CMIP6. CORDEX builds on a foundation of previous downscaling intercomparison projects …

Dynamical downscaling of CMIP5 global circulation models over CORDEX-Africa with COSMO-CLM: evaluation over the present climate and analysis of the added …

A Dosio, HJ Panitz, M Schubert-Frisius, D Lüthi - Climate Dynamics, 2015 - Springer
In this work we present the results of the application of the consortium for small-scale
modeling (COSMO) regional climate model (COSMO-CLM, hereafter, CCLM) over Africa in …

Projection of temperature and heat waves for Africa with an ensemble of CORDEX Regional Climate Models

A Dosio - Climate Dynamics, 2017 - Springer
The most severe effects of global warning will be related to the frequency and severity of
extreme events. We provide an analysis of projections of temperature and related extreme …

[HTML][HTML] Historical evaluations and simulations of precipitation over East Africa from Rossby centre regional climate model

B Ayugi, G Tan, GT Gnitou, M Ojara, V Ongoma - Atmospheric Research, 2020 - Elsevier
This study assesses the performance of ten Regional Climate Model (RCMs) from the latest
version of Rossby Centre of Atmospheric models (RCA4) in the simulation of precipitation …

Climate change projections for CORDEX-Africa with COSMO-CLM regional climate model and differences with the driving global climate models

A Dosio, HJ Panitz - Climate Dynamics, 2016 - Springer
In the framework of the coordinated regional climate downscaling experiment (CORDEX), an
ensemble of climate change projections for Africa has been created by downscaling the …