International Conference on Regional Climate - CORDEX 2013

The International Conference on Regional Climate - CORDEX 2013 will take place from 4 to 7 November in Brussels, Belgium.

This will be the opportunity to present and discuss the results from the World Climate Research Programme regional climate studies and especially to:

• appraise the current state of regional climate downscaling science;
• strengthen the synergies and cohesiveness within CORDEX regions and with other regional climate research initiatives;
• identify key opportunities and challenges in observations, modeling and analysis of regional climate;
• translate regional climate science into actionable information;
• engage close dialogue between the modeling and end-users communities;
• highlight priority research in support of the United Nations Global Framework for Climate Services;
• prepare the grounds for future IPCC assessment reports.

The conference is organised by the European Commission and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). Policy and decision makers, researchers and experts, early career scientists and students, development organizations and NGOs, specialized agencies and institutions and private sector are expected to participate.

Read more:

http://cordex2013.wcrp-climate.org/index.shtml