Facing the urgent requirement of regional VIA and policy makers in taking actions to mitigate climate change, the International Conference on Regional Climate–CORDEX 2019 project intended to address the key topics:
- Benefits and added values of downscalings, including newly developed downscaling techniques;
- Frontiers in regional climate sciences and processes, including convective permitting modelling, regional earth system processes such as biochemical, regional ocean and other human-climate interactions; and
- CORDEX in Action, including presenting its scientific and capacity-building achievements, summarising lessons learned, and prospecting its future perspectives and status in global climate research communities.
At the ICRCCORDEX 2019, 253 climatologists and stakeholders from 44 countries participated in 22 sessions, an APN early career scientists (ECS) event, and a side event focused on climate and risk.
Among them, 138 participants and 26 ECS were from APN countries and regions. With the implementation and completion of the project, ECS from the Asia-Pacific region had an opportunity to 1) interact and exchange experiences, 2) boost the capacity development and advance the knowledge exchange, and 3) expand existing and build new collaborations. The project contributed to promoting the CORDEX vision of advancing the regional climate science coordination and application of downscaling results, and it helped to improve the networking within the Asia-Pacific region.
