Regional Climate Mode Evaluation SystemRCMES
CORDEX Central America and South America Training Workshop on Downscaling Techniques in La Paz, Bolivia
Kyo Lee presented a two-hour training on correcting biases in the RCM simulations over CORDEX Central America and South America domains using RCMES and TRMM satellite observations on June 27th, 2018. There were more than 40 attendees from Mexico, Central America, and South America. The trainees connected to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, ran RCMES for the bias correction, and accessed the statistically downscaled GCM output from the NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections.
RCMES Training Session: Physical Geography Lab at Portland State University
Nearly 350 undergraduate students at Portland State University used RCMES to conduct climate model analysis for a Physical Geography lab assignment. This 200-level course offered by the Geography Department included students from many different majors across the university. Paul Loikith designed the lab with the help of Kyo Lee. The assignment consisted of using RCMES to statistically downscale three GCMs to different locations for different RCP emissions scenarios. Three teaching assistants, Douglas Thalacker, Elsie Love, and Bruce Rash helped facilitate the lab over three academic quarters.
RCMES Training Session: Second Workshop on Climate Change, Variability, and Modeling over Central America and Mexico
Kyo Lee presented a 90 minute training on RCMES in San Jose, Costa Rica on November 15th, 2016. There were more than 30 attendees from Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean countries.
RCMES Training Session: Physical Geography Lab at Portland State University
RCMES was used for a lab assignment in Introduction to Physical Geography at Portland State University. The lab consisted of a series of exercises using RCMES to statistically downscale temperature scenarios from global climate models for various cities across the world as a way to assess how climate change is projected to vary based on geography, season, and future emissions. A total of 140 students participated in the course during the fall term of 2016.
Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Tech Drive Webinar
Lewis McGibbney and Kyo Lee presented Apache Open Climate Workbench (OCW) and RCMES. The presentation can be watched here.
CORDEX-2016 Conference: Training session on RCMES at Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
The RCMES team at JPL and Portland State University have run the training session to introduce RCMES and its software architecture to 50+ participants. Participants were instructed on how to install, run, and evaluate climate models using RCMES. Attendees used their own PC/Mac laptop.
Professor Paul Loikith Physical Geography Course at Portland State University
Undergraduate/Graduate upper division physical geography course - taught by Professor Paul Loikith at PSU - requires writing a report on climate change for a Pacific Northwest City. The objective is to use RCMES to statistically downscale GCM CMIP output for their city and provide an analysis and climate change report.
DIRECT-STEM Multi-Disciplinary Research Seminar at California State University, Los Angeles
The workshop introduced RCMES and its software architecture. Participants were instructed on how to install, run, and evaluate climate models using RCMES. Multiple climate model evaluations were run using the Command Line Interface as well as Configuration Files.
RCMES Virtual Machine Workshop at JPL
This workshop introduced RCMES through a Virtual Machine. Participants were instructed on how to run and evaluate climate models using RCMES in a Virtual Machine environment.
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Climate Center’s (APCC) training program in Busan, S. Korea
APEC Climate Center (APCC) hosted a training program on Producing High Resolution Climate Information and its Application Using Downscaling Schemes. The 1-week training program aims to enhance downscaling skills by building in-depth understanding of dynamical and statistical downscaling. 30 trainees from different countries used RCMES in the hands-on session on statistical downscaling of climate model output.
Source codes for statistical downscaling using RCMES
Example Datasets
Virtual Machine
Climate dynamics course at University of Illinois (Prof. D. Wuebbles)
11 graduate students at University of Illinois used RCMES in their Climate Dynamics course to evaluate regional climate model simulations with observational data from a variety of sources.
3rd Lund Regional-Scale Climate Modeling Workshop in Lund, Sweden
The goal of this workshop is to review developments and progress in regional climate models, to discuss pertinent open issues and challenges, and to provide input for new developments on the field. RCMES team had a training session about evaluating GCMs and RCMs using observational data from RCMED.
Training Materials
Example Datasets
Virtual Machine
WCRP VAMOS/CORDEX Workshop on Latin-America and Caribbean CORDEX LAC (Phase II - The Caribbean) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
The second workshop for CORDEX Latin-America and the Caribbean was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic during the week of April 7, 2014. This workshop was primarily focused on regional climate modeling over the Caribbean region. The workshop consisted of three days of presentations and training activities. RCMES team member Paul Loikith presented a demonstration of RCMES at the workshop.
WCRP VAMOS/CORDEX Workshop on Latin-America and Caribbean CORDEX LAC (Phase I - South America) in Lima, Peru
The first workshop for CORDEX Latin-America and the Caribbean was held in Lima, Peru during the week of September 11, 2013. The workshop was held at the Instituto Geofisico del Peru. The workshop was primarily focused on regional climate modeling over South America and spanned three days of presentations and training session. RCMES team members Paul Loikith and Kim Whitehall attended and gave presentations about RCMES and the support it offers CORDEX.
The 2nd WCRP CORDEX Science and Training Workshop in South Asia, in Kathmandu, Nepal
The 2nd International Workshop on CORDEX-East Asia in Jeju, S. Korea
WCRP CORDEX South Asia Training Workshop in Pune, India
University of Cape Town Climate Systems Analyisis Group (CSAG) Winter School in Dakar, Senegal
University of Cape Town Climate Systems Analyisis Group (CSAG) Winter School in Cape Town, Rep. of South Africa