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 …

[HTML][HTML] Sea-level rise in Venice: historic and future trends

D Zanchettin, S Bruni, F Raicich… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2021 - nhess.copernicus.org
The city of Venice and the surrounding lagoonal ecosystem are highly vulnerable to
variations in relative sea level. In the past∼ 150 years, this was characterized by an average …

Evaluation of climate models

G Flato, J Marotzke, B Abiodun, P Braconnot… - Climate change 2013 …, 2014 - pure.mpg.de
Climate models have continued to be developed and improved since the AR4, and many
models have been extended into Earth System models by including the representation of …

Future evolution of marine heatwaves in the Mediterranean Sea

S Darmaraki, S Somot, F Sevault, P Nabat… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
Extreme ocean warming events, known as marine heatwaves (MHWs), have been observed
to perturb significantly marine ecosystems and fisheries around the world. Here, we propose …

RegCM4: model description and preliminary tests over multiple CORDEX domains

F Giorgi, E Coppola, F Solmon, L Mariotti, MB Sylla… - Climate …, 2012 - int-res.com
A new version of the RegCM regional climate modeling system, RegCM4, has been recently
developed and made available for public use. Compared to previous versions, RegCM4 …

Footprints of climate change on Mediterranean Sea biota

N Marbà, G Jordà, S Agustí, C Girard… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The Mediterranean Sea ranks among the ocean regions warming fastest. There is evidence
for impacts of climate change on marine Mediterranean organisms but a quantitative …

MED-CORDEX initiative for Mediterranean climate studies

PM Ruti, S Somot, F Giorgi, C Dubois… - Bulletin of the …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Mediterranean is expected to be one of the most prominent and vulnerable climate
change “hotspots” of the twenty-first century, and the physical mechanisms underlying this …

Added value in regional climate modeling

M Rummukainen - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Regional climate modeling is a dynamical downscaling technique applied to the results of
global climate models (GCMs) in order to acquire more information on climate simulations …

A review on regional dynamical downscaling in intraseasonal to seasonal simulation/prediction and major factors that affect downscaling ability

Y Xue, Z Janjic, J Dudhia, R Vasic, F De Sales - Atmospheric research, 2014 - Elsevier
Regional climate models (RCMs) have been developed and extensively applied for
dynamically downscaling coarse resolution information from different sources, such as …

Evolution of Mediterranean Sea water properties under climate change scenarios in the Med-CORDEX ensemble

J Soto-Navarro, G Jordá, Á Amores, W Cabos… - Climate Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
Twenty-first century projections for the Mediterranean water properties have been analyzed
using the largest ensemble of regional climate models (RCMs) available up to now, the Med …