On 27 July at 12.30 CEST, CMCC will host the webinar "Convection-Permitting Climate Modelling at CMCC: Overview and Main Challenges".
Convection-permitting models have received much attention from the climate community and policymakers in recent years, resulting as attractive tools to investigate sub-daily temperature and precipitation patterns and extreme values and their sensitivity to climate change. Improvements in regional climate model performances at very high resolution (1-3 km) mainly consist in a proper characterization of extremes, allowing to address hazard assessment and manage associated risk.
CMCC, together with other institutes and regional climate modelers, are investigating for the EU the potential added value of convection-permitting simulations. From recent studies, an open debate on the benefits and limitations of such models is still ongoing, supported by quantification of the uncertainties, single-model approaches and multi-model strategies for the assessment and evaluation of climate simulations at km-scales.
The webinar will discuss in-depth the benefits and challenges of convection-permitting climate modelling.