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Supporting the NCA
Supporting CORDEX / IPCC
Contributions to ExArch
Regional Climate Analysis
Regional Decision Making
Comparing Models to Observations

Supporting the NCA

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

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    Learn more...

Contributions to ExArch

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

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.  Learn more...

Regional Decision Making

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

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 evlaution tasks using the data...   Learn more...

Welcome

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.

RCMES Toolkit

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