This splinter session will provide insights from the latest achievements in PRIMAVERA, a European Union's Horizon 2020-funded project aimed at exploring the benefits of high resolution climate modelling.

PRIMAVERA provides state-of-the-art climate model simulations at high resolution (~25km), some of which contributed to the latest set of climate models which will inform the next IPCC Assessment Report. By better resolving the underlying physical processes, we expect these models to provide better simulations of certain climate processes, such as windstorms, flooding, heatwaves or atmospheric blocking.

To test these new high-resolution global climate models and evaluate the value added by their outputs, PRIMAVERA engages with different stakeholders. The project has been in touch with stakeholders using communication channels such as a specially designed User Interface Platform, Data Viewer, factsheets and story maps and involved them through webinars and meetings. That said, PRIMAVERA goes beyond information dissemination and promotes knowledge coproduction between “champion” users and project scientists. The knowledge coproduction with champion users is achieved through tailored one-to-one collaborations.

As the project is in its final stage, at this session we will share with the audience the scientific highlights of the project and tell what we have learnt during this four-years exercise. We will invite the project stakeholders and users, who have steadily provided feedback throughout the project and helped shape the result into useful and practical products. Some of our “champion” users will share their experience from collaboration with PRIMAVERA scientists on climate knowledge coproduction.

After a short introduction to the project and a few presentations from the key project scientists and users, the splinter session will open a dialogue where we can review the potential added value provided by high resolution climate modelling, share our experience, acknowledge the challenges and consider together how the PRIMAVERA project could better support European climate risk assessment activities.

Are you interested in extreme weather and climate? Come along if you want to find out more about the project and how climate information based on higher-resolution models could benefit your purpose.