PolarRES: Global variable-resolution ICON simulations with polar refinements
Acronym
PolarRES_ICONvR
Name
PolarRES: Global variable-resolution ICON simulations with polar refinements
Description
The EU Horizon 2020 project PolarRES (https://polarres.eu) aims to improve regional climate information to support impact assessments in the Arctic and Antarctic. To this end, high-resolution climate projections are performed based on physically plausible storyline scenarios. A key objective of the project is to assess the impact of enhanced spatial resolution in polar regions for both present-day and future climates using global variable-resolution climate models. This modelling strategy enables a process-based quantification of how increased polar resolution affects large-scale atmospheric circulation and linkages between polar regions and lower latitudes.
Therefore, within this project we conducted bipolar variable-resolution atmosphere-only simulations using the ICON (Icosahedral Nonhydrostatic) model. The simulations were conducted as part of PolarRES WP2 and were supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101003590.