CORDEX domain tables

Grid information of CORDEX domains in machine readable format.

[!IMPORTANT] Note that the domain identifier changes from CMIP5 to CMIP6 (from CORDEX_domain to domain_id): The global attribute that defines the domain in CMIP5 is named CORDEX_domain where the domain resolution is indicated in degrees, e.g., EUR-11 means Europe on a 0.11° resolution. The global attribute in CMIP6 is named more precisely as domain_id which indicates the domain resolution roughly in km, which means that EUR-11 becomes EUR-12! See also https://github.com/WCRP-CORDEX/cordex-cmip6-cv/issues/2.

Tables

These tables define CORDEX domains in different coordinate reference systems (CRS) to allow all kinds of downscaling models to participate in CORDEX activities. Please note that the coordinates in the rotated_grids and regular_grids tables denote the cell centers while the coordinates in the domain_boundaries table define actual boundaries and no cell centers.

• CORDEX-CMIP6_rotated_grids.csv: Domain definitions in the rotated pole CRS for the CMIP6 era (rotated_latitude_longitude). There might be some updates or additions for certain regions in CORDEX-CMIP6.
• CORDEX-CMIP5_rotated_grids.csv: Domain definitions in the rotated pole CRS in the CMIP5 era (rotated_latitude_longitude).
• CORDEX-CMIP5_regular_grids.csv: Domain definitions in a regular latitude longitude CRS (EPSG:4326).
• CORDEX-CMIP6_domain_boundaries.csv: Domain boundaries in a regular latitude longitude CRS (EPSG:4326).