EMS Webinar: Distilling reliable, robust, and relevant information from global climate models for climate adaptation

Speaker: Rasmus Benestad, Met Norway

The webinar will be held as Zoom webinar:

• Wednesday, 11 February 2026 at 4pm CET
• Register here (Zoom Webinar)

Abstract

Information to support climate change adaptation is derived through a comprehensive geoscientific downscaling model strategy that has evolved over the last 20 years. This effort has resulted in an open-source and free R-based tool, ‘esd’, for the benefit of sharing and improving the reproducibility of the downscaling results. New metrics are also presented as an integral part of the downscaling approach that assesses model performance with an emphasis on regional information for society (RifS). They involve novel ways of comparing model results with observational data and have been developed for downscaling large multi-model global climate model ensembles.

About the speaker

Rasmus Benestad is an experienced Norwegian climate scientist and modeller with expertise in empirical-statistical downscaling (ESD), climate extremes analysis, and seasonal predictability. Significant contributor to international climate assessments (IPCC AR4), and dedicated science communicator, notably as a co-founder of the influential RealClimate blog.