The main objective of the ongoing project CORDEX.be, “COmbining Regional Downscaling EXpertise in Belgium: CORDEX and Beyond”, is to gather existing and ongoing Belgian research activities in the domain of climate modelling to create a coherent scientific basis for future climate services in Belgium.
The project groups 8 Belgian Institutes under a single research program of the Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO). The project involves three regional climate models and several local impact models, including UrbClim, running at high resolutions on small domains over Belgium.
The contribution of VITO’s Urban Climate Service Centre to the project focusses on two objectives/challenges.