DATE2016-05-31 13:16:50
IDABSTRACT20160531131650-1078
CONTACTg.zittis@cyi.ac.cy
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TITLECLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION BASED ON WRF SIMULATIONS OVER THE MENA-CORDEX DOMAIN
AUTHORSGeorge Zittis (1), Panos Hadjinicolaou (1), Jos Lelieveld (1,2)
AFFILIATIONS
  1. The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia (Cyprus)
  2. Max Planck Institute For Chemistry, Mainz (Germany)
ABSTRACTAccording to observations and the vast majority of global climate projections the Mediterranean region is found to be one of the most prominent climate change hotspots. Since the horizontal resolution of global models is still not adequate for impact and adaptation assessments of regional or national level, further downscaling of climate information is required. The most recent, focused and complete effort is the CORDEX initiative (Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment) and particularly the establishment of the MED-CORDEX domain. However, downscaling experiments over adjacent CORDEX domains, such as the EURO-CORDEX and Middle East-North Africa (MENA-CORDEX) partially represent the Mediterranean Basin and might still be useful in projecting and understanding climate change processes over the broader region. In this study we investigate the performance of WRF model over the Mediterranean as part of our 50-km MENA-CORDEX simulations forced by the ERA-Interim reanalysis. We focus on surface variables (precipitation and temperature). Preliminary results for climate change projections are also presented.
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