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The driving GCM and RCM models included in the CDS-CORDEX subsets for the different domains available are detailed in the tables below. Note that the ensembles for different domains are formed by different GCM and RCM combinations from the main CMIP5 and CORDEX archives, respectively: these include 8 GCMs and 13 RCMs for EURO-CORDEX, 8 GCMs and 5 RCMs for Med-CORDEX, 8 GCMs and 8 RCMs for North-America CORDEX, and 5 GCMs and 6 RCMs for the Arctic. Please note that a small number of models were not included as those data have a research-only restriction on their use, while the data presented in the CDS are released without any restriction.
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Most of the Regional Climate Models that ran simulations over the European domain is documented through the Earth-System Documentation (ES-DOC) which provides a standardised and easy way to document climate models. See details at https://search.es-doc.org/?project=cordexp |
In the tables below, please see the GCM-RCM combinations for each published domains.
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SAM-CORDEX:
WAS-CORDEX:
SEA-CORDEX:
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Ensembles
The boundary conditions used to run a RCM are also identified by the model member if the CMIP5 simulation used. Each modelling centre typically run the same experiment using the same GCM several times to confirm the robustness of results and inform sensitivity studies through the generation of statistical information. A model and its collection of runs is referred to as an ensemble. Within these ensembles, three different categories of sensitivity studies are done, and the resulting individual model runs are labelled by three integers indexing the experiments in each category.
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