Climate-Fact-Sheets for Regions

The projected climate changes presented in these Regional Climate Fact Sheets are based on regional climate projections, which are presented in the framework of the EURO-COREX initiative EURO-COREX-Initiative as well as on regional climate projections provided by the ReKliEs-DE project, funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education.

The climate projections in the regional climate fact sheets are based on the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), of which the RCP8.5 represents a “business-as-usual” scenario, RCP4.5 a “medium” scenario, and RCP2.6 a “climate protection” scenario.

55 climate projections were obtained in August 2018 from the ESGF data portal via the data node at the German Climate Computing Centre ESGF data portal. Of these, 16 simulations for the "climate protection" scenario (RCP2.6), 15 simulations for the "medium" (RCP4.5) and 24 simulations for the “business-as-usual” (RCP8.5) emission scenarios are available. The EURO-CORDEX and ReKliEs-De simulations are available on a grid with a spatial horizontal resolution of 12 km x 12 km.

The climate change signals for the different variables presented in the regional climate fact sheets are calculated as the mean value for all grid cells located in this region.