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Supporting the NCA

RCMES is supporting the U. S. National Climate Assessment by providing access to data and tools for climate model validation.

Supporting CORDEX / IPCC

RCMES is supporting the COordinated Regional Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX) which contributes to the assessment of regional climate change for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Regional Decision Making

Observational data from RCMES helps quantify uncertainties in models used for climate projections and in turn by decision makers at local, state, and national levels.

Comparing Models to Observations

RCMES provides uniform access to billions of observational measurements, as well as a robust set of tools for performing common model evaluation tasks using the data...

Contributions to ExArch

RCMES has been contributing to the multinational, multi-institutional ExArch project to facilitate advances in Exascale climate analysis.

Regional Climate Analysis

RCMES is powered by Apache's Open Climate Workbench and is designed to facilitate the observation-based evaluation of the representation of regional scale climate variability and change for both global and regional climate models.

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Welcome
RCMES Toolkit

The RCMES Toolkit contains useful links and documents related to the RCMES project, including source code, instructions and more.

Modeling climate and Earth system processes on regional scales is essential for projecting the impacts of climate change on society and our natural resources. Quantifying model biases is critical to characterizing the uncertainties associated with these climate change projections and is also an essential step in developing and improving Earth system models. The Regional Climate Model Evaluation System (RCMES) is designed to facilitate regional-scale evaluations of climate and Earth system models by providing standardized access to a vast and comprehensive set of observations (e.g. satellite, reanalyses and in-situ) and modeling resources (e.g. CMIP & CORDEX on the ESGF), as well as tools for performing common analysis and visualization tasks (e.g. OCW). Browse this site to get a better idea of the objectives, capabilities and applications of RCMES, and how they support the U.S. National Climate Assessment and CORDEX program as well as the goals of the JPL Center for Climate Sciences and the JPL-UCLA Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering.


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