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Updates from the CORDEX regions South–America. Silvina A. Solman CORDEX SAT - South America CIMA (CONICET-UBA) – DCAO ( FCEyN -UBA). CORDEX Science Advisory Team 1 st Session Trieste - Italy, 1 6 1-17 May 2014. CORDEX –South America. Recent activities Scientific developments
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Updates from the CORDEX regionsSouth–America Silvina A. Solman CORDEX SAT - South America CIMA (CONICET-UBA) – DCAO (FCEyN-UBA) CORDEX Science Advisory Team 1st Session Trieste - Italy, 161-17May 2014
CORDEX –South America • Recent activities • Scientific developments • Data dissemination • Funding
Recent activities • ICSU Grant (May 2013-April 2014) WCRP in parternship with CLIVAR/VAMOS (Co -sponsored by: IAI, 5Cs and WCRP) Regional Climate Downscaling over South America, Central America and the Caribbean: A coordinated effort to pursue Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation studies in the region • 2 Training Workshops
A partnership between CLIVAR/VAMOS and CORDEX11th-13th September 2013, Lima -Perú Hosted by the IGP (Lima, Perú)
http://www.cima.fcen.uba.ar/LAC-CORDEX/ • 70 participants from 19 countries (50% were early-career scientists) • Main outcomes • Identify VIA, climate modelling on-going studies and user knowledge needs within the region ; • Develop a regional network from Latin America and the Caribbean communities; • Training participants on identifying vulnerability and risk, • developing skills in integrating and communicating climate related risk and the appropriate policy responses; • CORDEX-LAC mailinglist: cordexlac_list@cima.fcen.uba.ar
A partnership between CLIVAR/VAMOS and CORDEX7th-9th April 2014, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Hosted by the ONAMET (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
http://www.cima.fcen.uba.ar/LACII-CORDEX/ • 40 participants from 18 countries • Training activity focused on approaches for developing useful climate-relevant messages for policy development. • Main outcomes • Improved training and analysisskills; • Enhancedsynthesis and relevance of regional climateinformation and projections; • Improvedunderstanding of potentialvulnerabilities and impacts of global change at the regional scale;
CORDEX –South America • Recent activities • Scientific developments • Data dissemination • Funding
CORDEX- South America simulations ✔ Available at ESGF
Scientificdevelopements • Analysis of the ERA-Interimdrivensimulationsmainlyfocusedonmodelevaluationissues. • On-goinganalysis of the RegCM4 scenariosimulations .
Funding • No funding available for CORDEX South America!!