Objective
The goal of PRIMAVERA is to deliver novel, advanced and well-evaluated high-resolution global climate models (GCMs), capable of simulating and predicting regional climate with unprecedented fidelity, out to 2050. This capability will deliver innovative climate science and a new generation of advanced Earth System Models. Sector-specific end-users in policy and business will be identified and engaged individually, with iterative feedback, to ensure that new climate information is tailored, actionable and strengthening societal risk management decisions.
These goals will be achieved through the development of coupled GCMs from seven groups across Europe, with sufficient resolution to reproduce realistic weather and climate features (~25km mesh size), in addition to enhanced process parameterisation. Thorough assessment will use innovative process-based metrics and the latest observational and reanalysis datasets. Targeted experimental design will reduce inter-model spread and produce robust projections, forming the European contribution to the CMIP6 High-Resolution Model Intercomparison Project, led by PRIMAVERA.
It is the first time that high-resolution coupled GCMs will be used under a single experimental protocol. Coordination, and the underlying process-understanding, will significantly increase the robustness of our findings. Our new capabilities will be used to improve understanding of the drivers of variability and change in European climate, including extremes, since such regional changes continue to be characterised by high uncertainty.
We will also explore the frontiers of climate modelling and of high performance computing to produce simulations with a reduced reliance on physical parameterisations. These will explicitly resolve key processes such as ocean eddies, and will include new stochastic parameterisations to represent sub-grid scale processes. These “frontiers” simulations will further our understanding of the robustness of climate projections.
Fields of science
- social sciencessociologygovernancecrisis management
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcomputer hardwaresupercomputers
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
EX1 3PB Exeter
United Kingdom
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Participants (19)
RG6 6AH Reading
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3731 GA De Bilt
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601 76 NORRKOEPING
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31057 Toulouse Cedex
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80539 Munchen
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1348 Louvain La Neuve
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08034 Barcelona
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73100 Lecce
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27570 Bremerhaven
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OX1 2JD Oxford
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00185 Roma
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RG2 9AX Reading
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LS2 9JT Leeds
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10691 Stockholm
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SN2 1FL Swindon
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39005 Santander
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
20146 Hamburg
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013686 Bucuresti Sectorul 1
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SO14 3ZH Southampton
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