PRIMAVERA

PRIMAVERA aims to develop a new generation of advanced and well-evaluated high-resolution global climate models, capable of simulating and predicting regional climate with unprecedented fidelity, for the benefit of governments, business and society in general.

Overview

PRIMAVERA is organised around five major research themes:

  1. Innovations in modelling
  2. Process-based assessment
  3. Drivers of European climate
  4. Flagship simulations for HighResMIP
  5. Climate risk assessment

PRIMAVERA is a European Union Horizon-2020 project made possible by collaboration between 19 European partner institutions, and its flagship global climate simulations are the European contribution to HighResMIP. PRIMAVERA will help us to answer societally important questions. To what extent are recent heat waves, floods and droughts across Europe attributable to natural variability or to human influence on the global climate system? How will the risk of such high-impact climate and weather events change over the coming decades?

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