Ensembles Research Theme 3

The overall goal of ENSEMBLES is to maintain and extend European pre-eminence in the provision of policy relevant information on climate and climate change and its interactions with society.

The project will meet its main objectives by use of 10 interlinked Research Themes (RT). Each RT is composed of several Work Packages (WP) which will enable the milestones and deliverables to be achieved within each RT.

Objective 3: Develop higher resolution climate models to provide more regionally detailed climate predictions and better information on extreme events.

Operational goals of RT3:
- Develop high resolution (i.e., up to 20 km) regional climate models for Europe along with high quality quality-controlled gridded climate datasets for Europe (RT3, RT5).
- Completion of an extensive multi-model ensemble of RCMs, using the system developed in RT3

RT3 has the responsibility for providing improved climate model tools developed in the context of regional models, first at spatial scales of 50 km at a European-wide scale and later also at as high a resolution as 25km for specified sub-regions. Analogous to RT1, and using boundary conditions from RT2A, RT3 will produce a multi-model ensemble based system for regional climate prediction from seasonal to decadal and longer time scales to be applied in RT2B.

ENSEMBLES项目的总体目标是维护并扩展欧洲在提供与气候及气候变化相关的政策信息方面的领先地位，并探讨其与社会互动的影响。项目将通过运用10个相互关联的研究主题（RT）来实现其主要目标。每个RT由若干个工作包（WP）组成，这些工作包将确保每个RT内里程碑和交付成果的实现。目标3：开发更高分辨率的气候模型，以提供更细致的区域气候预测以及关于极端事件的更详尽信息。RT3的操作目标：
- 开发高分辨率（即，高达20公里）的欧洲区域气候模型，并配合高质量的、经过质量控制的地域气候数据集（RT3、RT5）。
- 完成由RT3开发系统支持的广泛的多模型集合RCMs的构建。
RT3承担着在区域模型背景下提供改进的气候模型工具的责任，最初在50公里的空间尺度上实现欧洲范围内的应用，随后也在特定子区域实现高达25公里的最高分辨率。与RT1类似，并使用RT2A提供的边界条件，RT3将生产一个多模型集合系统，用于从季节到十年及更长的时间尺度进行区域气候预测，并将应用于RT2B。