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- scenario experiments RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP8.5: ensemble of CORDEX climate projection experiments driven by boundary conditions from GCMs using RCP (Representative Concentration Pathways) forcing scenarios. The scenarios used here are RCP 2.6, 4.5 and 8.5, they provide different pathways of the future climate forcing.
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Regional Climate Model (RCM) simulations needs lateral boundary conditions from Global Climate Models (GCMs). At the moment the CDS-CORDEX subset boundary conditions are extracted from CMIP5 global projections. CORDEX framework requires each RCM downscale a minimum of 3 GCMs for 2 scenarios (at least RCP8.5 and RCP2.6). The C3S-CORDEX subset aims to fill the gaps in this matrix between GCMs (aka "driving models), RCMs and RCPs.
Regional Models
The models included in the CDS-CORDEX subset are detailed in the table below, these include 12 of the models from the main CORDEX archive. However a small number of models were not included as the data from the models have a research-only restriction on their use, but all data in the CDS are released without restriction.
Driving Global Models
The driving GCMs used to produced the CDS-CORDEX subset are details in the table below, these include 8 of the models from the main CMIP5 archive. However a small number of models were not included as the data from the models have a research-only restriction on their use, but all data in the CDS are released without restriction.THIS TABLE SHOULD BE CHECKED BY 34B LOT2 PEOPLE AND WE HAVE TO EXPLAIN IN THE TEXT WHAT THIS TABLE EXACTLY REPRESENTS (ALL EXPERIMENTS WHICH WILL BE DELIVERED SOONER OR LATER TO THE CDS?).
| Driving Global Coupled Models | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HadGEM2-ES | EC-EARTH | CNRM-CM5 | NorESM1-M | MPI-ESM-LR | IPSL-CM5A-MR | CanESM2 | MIROC5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Regional Climate Models | RCA4 (SMHI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| CCLM-8-17 (ETH) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| CCLM-GPU (ETH) | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| REMO 09&15 (GERICS) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| RACMO22E (KNMI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| HIRHAM5 (DMI) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| WRF361H | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| WRF381P | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| ALADIN53 (CNRM) | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| ALADIN63 (CNRM) | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| RegCM4.6.1 (ICTP) | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| HadGEM3-RA (MOHC) | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| RCP26 | RCP45 | RCP85 | [0-9] = Number of simulations | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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