Higher-resolution projections needed for small island climates

Jason P. Evans (1) , Ali Belmadani (2) , Christophe Menkes (3) , Tannecia Stephenson (4) , Marcus Thatcher (5) , Peter B. Gibson (6) , Alexandre Peltier (7)

1 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Weather of the 21st Century and the Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
2 DIRAG - Direction Inter-Régionale des Antilles-Guyane
3 ENTROPIE [Réunion] - Ecologie marine tropicale dans les Océans Pacifique et Indien
4 5Department of Physics, The University of the West Indies, Mona
5 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Melbourne, Victoria
6 National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington
7 Météo-France, interregional office in New Caledonia and Wallis-and-Futuna, Noumea

Projections of the future climate of small island states and territories are currently limited by the coarse resolution of models. We call for rapid global and regional cooperation to develop projections compatible with small island scales, providing relevant local information and decision-making tools.

Keywords: Small islands; Climate change; Climate models; High resolution; International cooperation

Domains: Ocean, Atmosphere; Modeling and Simulation; Global Changes

Jason P. Evans, Ali Belmadani, Christophe Menkes, Tannecia Stephenson, Marcus Thatcher, et al.. Higher-resolution projections needed for small island climates. Nature Climate Change, 2024, 14, pp.668-670. ⟨10.1038/s41558-024-02028-9⟩. ⟨meteo-04643338⟩