IS-ENES3 Autumn School in Prague: From Climate Projections to Climate Impacts via Regional Downscaling

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges in our times. To assess climate change impacts and to adapt to climate change - the understanding of the climate system behavior especially in higher resolution considering local conditions is essential. We need knowledge of climate data and experience in processing and analyzing them. The main source of future data is climate projections, for regional impacts we rely on regional downscaling for high-resolution information.

The one of initiatives of the EC Horizon2020 project IS-ENES3 was to organize the schools on the different aspects of the chain toward the application of climate change information for climate services. After a series of online schools due to COVID-19, finally, we were able to organize a few of them in person, one being held in Prague at the end of November last year, under the title „From Climate Projections to Climate Impacts via Regional Downscaling“, which was supported by the organizing it as a back-to-back event with the final meeting of CORDEX FPS Convection dealing with the very high resolution, so called „convection-permitting “ regional climate modeling.

Thus, the emphasis during one week's school was given to climate models and downscaling methods, tools to analyze and process climate data as well as how to apply them for impact studies. The information on where and how to access the necessary data was provided together with tutorials and practical exercises in order to get experience with these data and tools. Specific time was reserved for group¨s projects, i.e. case studies elaborated by small groups of students using the data and tools provided during the school.