CORDEX - Flagship Pilot Study on Convective phenomena at high resolution over Europe and the Mediterranean (FPSCONV)
Scientific Objectives
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Investigate convective-scale events, their processes and their changes in a few key regions of Europe and the Mediterranean using convection-permitting RCMs, statistical models and available observations
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Provide a collective assessment of our modeling capacity at convection-permitting scale
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Shape a coherent and collective assessment of the consequences of climate change on convective event impacts at local to regional scales
Science Aims
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How do Convective events and associated damaging phenomena (heavy precipitation, wind storms, flash-floods) respond to changing climate conditions in different climatic regions of Europe?
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Does an improved representation of convective processes and precipitation at convection permitting scales lead to upscaled added value?
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Is it possible to replace costly convection- permitting experiments with physically defensible statistical downscaling approaches such as “convection emulators” that mimic CPMs and are fed by output of conventional- scale RCMs?
Project facts
Name
CORDEX - Flagship Pilot Study on Convective phenomena at high resolution over Europe and the Mediterranean (FPSCONV)
Status
CONCLUDED
Duration
01.11.16 - 31.12.21
