severe convective environments study

goal of the study

• Understand changes to severe convective environments in Europe under twenty-first century warming scenarioes downscaled using high-resolution Regional Climate Models (RCMs)
• Utilize the EUR-11 CORDEX ensemble of RCMs for this purpose which would be the largest and highest-resolution ensemble used to study severe convective environments to date

how to participate

required RCM data

• experiment ids: historical, RCP2.6, and/or RCP8.5.
• timeslices:
  • historical (1981-2010),
  • mid-future (2041-2070),
  • far-future (2071-2100).
• required pressure levels for ta (air temperature) and hus (specific humidity): (925,850,700,600,500,400,300,200) hPa.

References

• Glazer, R.H., Torres-Alavez, J.A., Coppola, E. et al. Projected changes to severe thunderstorm environments as a result of twenty-first century warming from RegCM CORDEX-CORE simulations. Clim Dyn (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05439-4

• Pucik, T., Groenemeijer, P., Radler, A.T., Tijssen, L. et al. Future Changes in European Severe Convection Environments in a Regional Climate Model Ensemble. J. Climate (2017). https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0777.1