New horizons in statistical downscaling and AI approaches for sustainable km-scale climate simulations

This work was supported by the NERC–FAPESP–NSTC Land Use Change Investigation and Regional Climate (LIRIC) project [NE/Z504026/1], and by Climate Collaboratorium: Co-creation of Applied Theatre Decision Labs for exploring Climate Adaptation and Mitigation, part of the 2023 International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Competition, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)/UKRI [ES/Z000238/1]. Matías Ezequiel Olmo is funded by the AI4Science PN070500 fellowship within the “Generación D” initiative, Red.es, Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública, for talent attraction (C005/24-ED CV1). Funded by the European Union NextGenerationEU funds, through PRTR. V.D.N. was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (projects 01LP1903E and 01LP2324E) within the ClimXtreme network (FONA3). Konstantinos V. Varotsos is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation project MOIRAI (Grant Agreement. No. 101180994) This work is a contribution to the Med-CORDEX initiative (https://med-cordex.github.io/), and the Seasonal-to-decadal climate predictability in the Mediterranean: process understanding and services (MEDUSSE) COST Action (CA23108) It is also a part of the CORDEX‑WRF community within the WCRP Flagship Pilot Study URB‑RCC and the NCAR South American Affinity Group, and also contributes to the National Federated Compute Services NetworkPlus initiative, Enhancing HPC Adoption Through User‑Centred Design: A Roadmap for Inclusive Innovation in Environment, Health, and the Built Environment. It also informs the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Water Solutions Decade, supporting efforts to decolonise hydrology and promote diversity, inclusiveness, and equality, while contributing to Theme C (Compound Risks) and Theme D (Machine Learning and AI) of the UNESCO EURO‑FRIEND Water Project‑3 on Large‑Scale Variations in Hydrological Characteristics.

Authors and Affiliations

1. University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

   Kwok Pan Chun

2. CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Bologna, Italy

   Leonardo Aragão

3. Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain

   Matías Ezequiel Olmo

4. GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Section Hydrology, Potsdam, Germany

   Viet Dung Nguyen

5. Vatican Observatory, Vatican City State, Italy

   Christoforus Bayu Risanto

6. University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

   Maria Laura Bettolli

7. Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, 34469, Istanbul, Türkiye

   Yasemin Ezber & Emir Toker

8. Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece

   Konstantinos V. Varotsos

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Correspondence to
Kwok Pan Chun.

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