CORDEX Phase1

The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) established 2009 the Task Force for Regional Climate Downscaling (TFRCD), which created the CORDEX initiative to generate regional climate change projections for all terrestrial regions of the global within the timeline of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and beyond.

The major aims of the CORDEX initiative are to provide a coordinated model evaluation framework, a climate projection framework, and an interface to the applicants of the climate simulations in climate change impact, adaptation, and mitigation studies.

CORDEX-East Asia is the East-Asian branch of the CORDEX initiative and will produce ensemble climate simulations based on multiple dynamical and statistical downscaling models forced by multiple global climate models