Med-CORDEX phase 3: the Med-CORDEX-CMIP6 baseline runs
Points of Contact: Samuel Somot (CNRM), Erika Coppola (ICTP)
The Med-CORDEX Phase 3 baseline runs are a contribution to the CORDEX-CMIP6 Domain activity.
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) or Regional Earth System Models (RESM), including the high-resolution representation and the full coupling of various components of the Mediterranean regional climate system. Following this history, the Med-CORDEX-CMIP6 baseline runs are fully coupled and high-resolution RCM simulations including at least the atmosphere, land-surfaces, rivers and ocean with a simulation framework adapted from the CORDEX-CMIP6 protocol.
You can find the main documents attached to the production of the Med-CORDEX-CMIP6 baseline runs on the Med-CORDEX zenodo community. More specifically, you can find the :
- The main document : Common simulation protocol, including the experiment design
- Ocean spin-up stability criteria
- The ensemble design strategy or GCM Selection with the dedicated task team rendering and the GCM selection big table
- List of participating institutes and models Warning : this list includes all model configurations ever used in Med-CORDEX during the 3 phases
- List of Med-CORDEX-CMIP6 evaluation, historical and scenario Baseline simulations is now maintained on the official CORDEX github in html or csv
- Ocean Variable Data Request
- River Variable Data Request
- Atmosphere and Land Variable Data Request
- Aerosol Variable Data Request
- The official CORDEX-CMIP6 Archive Specifications for Dynamical Downscaling is now valid for coupled RCMs with the source_type = AORCM
- L’ESGF-NG is now ready to host the atmosphere, land, river, ocean and aerosols variables of the Med-CORDEX-CMIP6 simulations
- More information about CORDEX-CMIP6 technical aspects (cmor tables, controlled vocabulary, archive specifications, data request) on the WCRP-CORDEX github
- How to submit a RCM simulation to CORDEX-CMIP6
- Model and run documentations (work in progress)