Med-CORDEX initiative for Mediterranean climate studies

Paolo M. Ruti; S. Somot; F. Giorgi; C. Dubois; E. Flaounas; A. Obermann; A. Dell'Aquila; G. Pisacane; A. Harzallah; E. Lombardi; B. Ahrens; N. Akhtar; A. Alias; T. Arsouze; R. Aznar; S. Bastin; J. Bartholy; K. Béranger; J. Beuvier; S. Bouffies-Cloché; J. Brauch; W. Cabos; S. Calmanti; J. C. Calvet; A. Carillo; D. Conte; E. Coppola; V. Djurdjevic; P. Drobinski; A. Elizalde-Arellano; M. Gaertner; P. Galàn; C. Gallardo; S. Gualdi; M. Goncalves; O. Jorba; G. Jordà; B. L'Heveder; C. Lebeaupin-Brossier; L. Li; G. Liguori; P. Lionello; D. Maciàs; P. Nabat; B. Önol; B. Raikovic; K. Ramage; F. Sevault; G. Sannino; M. V. Struglia; A. Sanna; C. Torma; V. Vervatis

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00176.1

Med-CORDEX initiative for Mediterranean climate studies

Paolo M. Ruti^*
, S. Somot
, F. Giorgi
, C. Dubois
, E. Flaounas
, A. Obermann
, A. Dell'Aquila
, G. Pisacane
, A. Harzallah
, E. Lombardi
, B. Ahrens
, N. Akhtar
, A. Alias
, T. Arsouze
, R. Aznar
, S. Bastin
, J. Bartholy
, K. Béranger
, J. Beuvier
, S. Bouffies-Cloché

J. Brauch, W. Cabos, S. Calmanti, J. C. Calvet, A. Carillo, D. Conte, E. Coppola, V. Djurdjevic, P. Drobinski, A. Elizalde-Arellano, M. Gaertner, P. Galàn, C. Gallardo, S. Gualdi, M. Goncalves, O. Jorba, G. Jordà, B. L'Heveder, C. Lebeaupin-Brossier, L. Li, G. Liguori, P. Lionello, D. Maciàs, P. Nabat, B. Önol, B. Raikovic, K. Ramage, F. Sevault, G. Sannino, M. V. Struglia, A. Sanna, C. Torma, V. Vervatis

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Meteorological Engineering

World Meteorological Organization
Groupe d'Étude de l'Atmosphère Météorologique
Centre national de recherches météorologiques
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
National Observatory of Athens
Institut fuer Atmosphaere und Umwelt
Goethe University Frankfurt
Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile
University of Carthage
ENSTA-ParisTech
Puertos de l'Estado
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences
Eotvos Lorand University
Deutscher Wetterdienst
University of Alcalá
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
University of Belgrade
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Technical University of Madrid
Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Centro Nacional de Supercomputación
University of the Balearic Islands
Department of Physics
University of Salento
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute
Faculty of Physics
Physics Department
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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Abstract

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 finding are still not clear. Furthermore, complex interactions and feedbacks involving ocean-atmosphere-land-biogeochemical processes play a prominent role in modulating the climate and environment of the Mediterranean region on a range of spatial and temporal scales. Therefore, it is critical to provide robust climate change information for use in vulnerability-impact-adaptation assessment studies considering the Mediterranean as a fully coupled environmental system. The Mediterranean Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (Med-CORDEX) initiative aims at coordinating the Mediterranean climate modeling community toward the development of fully coupled regional climate simulations, improving all relevant components of the system from atmosphere and ocean dynamics to land surface, hydrology, and biogeochemical processes. The primary goals of Med-CORDEX are to improve understanding of past climate variability and trends and to provide more accurate and reliable future projections, assessing in a quantitative and robust way the added value of using high-resolution and coupled regional climate models. The coordination activities and the scientific outcomes of Med-CORDEX can produce an important framework to foster the development of regional Earth system models in several key regions worldwide.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1187-1208
Number of pages	22
Journal	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume	97
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00176.1
Publication status	Published - Jul 2016

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We are grateful to anonymous reviewers who made very important comments to improve this work. This work is a contribution to the HyMeX program supported by grants MISTRALS and ANR-12-SENV-001 REMEMBER and to the CLIMRUN project (www.climrun.eu) funded under the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). We thank the JPL PO.DAAC that makes the QuikSCAT data freely available, Météo France for the ODAS-03FR Côte d'Azur buoy data. ECMWF ERA-Interim data used in this study have been obtained from the ECMWF data server.

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Ruti, P. M., Somot, S., Giorgi, F., Dubois, C., Flaounas, E., Obermann, A., Dell'Aquila, A., Pisacane, G., Harzallah, A., Lombardi, E., Ahrens, B., Akhtar, N., Alias, A., Arsouze, T., Aznar, R., Bastin, S., Bartholy, J., Béranger, K., Beuvier, J., ... Vervatis, V. (2016). Med-CORDEX initiative for Mediterranean climate studies. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97(7), 1187-1208. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00176.1

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