Advancing South American water and climate science through multidecadal Convection-Permitting modeling

SAAG supports large research efforts such as the ANDEX Regional Hydroclimate Program (Espinoza et al. 2020) as well as individual research groups. The group started with a dozen members and quickly grew to over 100 participants from more than 10 countries.

For the past four years, the SAAG has been meeting online every two weeks and has organized sessions at international conferences such as the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting and the Convection-Permitting Climate Workshop (Prein et al. 2022). At the core of the SAAG effort are two multidecadal convection-permitting (CP) model simulations with 4-km grid spacing for historical and future climates over the South American continent.