DEAR-Clima ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence

The DEAR-Clima (Data Extraction Application for Regional Climate) is a user friendly interactive web application tool that visualizes and provides time series of essential climate variables and climate indices based on high horizontal resolution Regional Climate Model (RCM) simulations from the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment ( CORDEX ) research program. Reliable and user friendly open access of future climate change data from high resolution RCM projections is essential to support decision makers, stakeholders, intermediary users and end-users for climate change impacts, mitigation and adaptation. The RCM data processed in this web application tool have a high spatial resolution (0.11°) over the european doamin and cover a time period from 1950 to 2100. The historical period of each experiment refers to 1950-2004, while the future period is 2006-2100 under the influence of three Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) adopted by the IPCC for its fifth Assessment Report (AR5); rcp26, rcp45 and rcp85. The simulation experiments are a product of various RCMs driven by several Global Climate Models (GCMs).