Unpublished CORDEX-CMIP6.DD.NAM-12.OURANOS.evaluation.CRCM5-SN (v1)

General Information


Name CORDEX-CMIP6.DD.NAM-12.OURANOS.evaluation.CRCM5-SN
Abstract Project: project_id: CORDEX-CMIP6
activity_id: DD
CORDEX Domain: North America
source_id: CRCM5-SN

Produced by: Ouranos Consortium on Regional Climatology and Adaptation to Climate Change (Québec, Canada) (Using Model/Source: CRCM5-SN with Experiment evaluation)

Grid configuration : NAM-12 CORDEX North American domain at 0.11°, 695x668 grid points including a 20-point sponge (and halo) zone surrounding the domain, 5-minute time steps, 56 vertical levels and a top at 10 hPa. 17 surface levels and a bottom at 15 m.

Spectral Nudging : A spectral nudging is applied to the horizontal wind component with a half-response wavelength of 1177km and a relaxation time of 13.34 h. The nudging strength is set to zero from the surface to a height of 500 hPa and increases linearly onward to the top of the model’s simulated atmosphere (10 hPa).

Atmosphere:
Precipitation: modified Sundqvist (1998); precipitation partition Bourgouin (2000) ; Implicit vertical diffusion.
Shallow convection: Kuo (1965) transient shallow, Non‐cloudy boundary layer formulation.
Deep convection: Kain-Fritsch (1990);
Radiation: Li & Barker (2005)

Surface: CLASS3.5c (Verseghy, 1993)
Lake model: FLake
Ocean: Prescribed SST & sea ice fraction
Aerosol: Prescribed

The CRCM5-SN is developed by the ESCER Centre at UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) with the collaboration of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), based on GEM 3.3.3.1 from ECCC.

CORDEX is a programme of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), coordinated under the umbrella of the Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Core Project. CORDEX-CMIP6 builds on the work of the 6th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ERA5 reanalysis and relies on the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) and the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) along with numerous related activities for implementation. Published under CC-BY-4.0.

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License CORDEX is a programme of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), coordinated under the umbrella of the Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Core Project. CORDEX-CMIP6 builds on the work of the 6th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ERA5 reanalysis and relies on the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) and the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) along with numerous related activities for implementation. Published under CC-BY-4.0.

CMIP7 Facets


Activity DD
Domain NAM-12
Experiment evaluation
Institution OURANOS
Project CORDEX-CMIP6
Source CRCM5-SN

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from pystac.client import Client

cli = Client.open("https://search.east.esgf.io")
cli.search(
   collections=["CORDEX-CMIP6"],
   query=[
      "cordex-cmip6:driving_experiment_id=evaluation",
      "cordex-cmip6:domain_id=NAM-12",
      "cordex-cmip6:activity_id=DD",
      "cordex-cmip6:source_id=CRCM5-SN",
      "cordex-cmip6:institution_id=OURANOS",
])
                    

Responsible Parties


Name Role
Dominique Paquin (paquin.dominique@ouranos.ca) Primary
Michel Giguère (giguere.michel@ouranos.ca) Contact
Christopher McCray Contact
Olivier Asselin (asselin.olivier@ouranos.ca) Contact
Charles Gauthier (gauthier.charles@ouranos.ca) Contact
Dominic Matte (matte.dominic@ouranos.ca) Contact
Marie-Pier Labonté (labonte.marie-pier@ouranos.ca) Contact
Pascal Bourgault (bourgault.pascal@ouranos.ca) Contact

Funding Streams


Stream Name Affiliation
IsCitedBy Paquin, D., McCray, C.D., Gauthier, C.B. et al. The Ouranos CRCM5-CMIP6 ensemble: A dynamically downscaled ensemble of CMIP6 simulations over North America. Sci Data 12, 1984 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06289-7.