Session D 3- Discussion session: Climate projections for islands (online and Trieste)

Leonardo building - Stasi Lecture Hall Conveners: Jason Evans (CCRC), Tannecia Stephenson (UWI), Marcus Thatcher (CSIRO), Christophe Menkes (ENTROPIE, IRD, CNRS), Matthieu Lengaigne (MARBEC, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Sète, France), Ali Belmadani (ENM & CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France). The aim of this session is to gather members of the CORDEX and broader regional climate modelling community interested in simulating the climate of islands. The session will present past and ongoing efforts to downscale climate projections over islands, discuss the major challenges facing the production of such projections, and propose a way forward that may include a Flagship Pilot Study focused on downscaling over islands. Participants are invited to submit abstracts to this session. Jason Evans Welcome/Introduction Marie Leroux (online) Producing climate services in the Southwest Indian Ocean from CMIP6 Downscaled Data Abhnil Prasad (online) Future Precipitation Extremes in the Small Pacific Islands Ali Bel Madani Downscaling climate projections over small islands and territories : The cases of French West Indies and French Guiana Misnawati Misnawati Assessing Rice Yield Change based on CORDEX-Southeast Asia simulations in Sumatra Vishnu Sasidharan Nair CLIPSSA: High-Resolution Island Scale Climate Simulation for Improved Adaptation Strategies in the Southwest Pacific Region