CMIP and CORDEX
Climate projections are elaborated by international collaborations between research organisations that are referred to as projects or experiments. The major ones are:
- CMIP6, which stands for Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6, which is the basis of the upcoming in 2021 sixth assessment report of the IPCC.
- CMIP5, which stands for Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5, on which the fifth assessment report of the IPCC report relies upon.
- CORDEX for Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment. In short, CORDEX is a high resolution version of the CMIP5 limited to some specific regions.