simulations phase 2

Med-CORDEX phase 2: the baseline runs

Since its launch, one of the main strength and originality of the Med-CORDEX initiative within CORDEX is the setting, coordination and use of coupled RCMs also called Regional Climate System Models (RCSM) including at least the representation of the atmosphere, land-surface and ocean components (see Ruti et al. 2016 for more details and illustrations of the first results or read this). This led the Med-CORDEX community to propose RCSM simulations to become the baseline runs for the second phase of Med-CORDEX.

The main challenges addressed by the baseline runs are:

• Characterization of the past regional climate variability and trends
• Characterization (incl. uncertainty) of the future regional climate evolution
• Characterization of the past variability and future evolution of relevant Mediterranean climate phenomena
• Contribution to the characterization of the Mediterranean climate change impacts

You can find below the main documents attached to the production of the Med-CORDEX-2 baseline runs:

• Simulation protocol
• List of participating institutes and models
• List of evaluation runs
• List of historical and scenario runs
• Variable requirement and Archive specification
• More information about the runs (see the metadata tables):
  • Atmosphere Lateral Boundary conditions and Nudging
  • Ocean Lateral Boundary conditions in the Near-Atlantic and Coupling over the Near-Atlantic
  • Aerosol representation
  • Land-Cover and Land-Use characteristics
  • Nile river discharge
  • Black Sea representation
  • Ocean initial conditions and Ocean spin-up