Jean-Michel Soubeyrou, Deputy Scientific Director, Climatology and Climate Services Division, Météo-France (testimonial from the “Explore2 project, hydrological projections to adapt water resource management” dossier – 2024)
“The department in which I work focuses on understanding past and future climate change in France and developing climate services. Within Explore2, I coordinate Météo-France’s contributions to the project. In particular, we have been working on correcting the biases associated with the regional climate models used to produce hydrological projections. These biases concern the spatial and temporal distribution of temperature and precipitation, which are very important variables for hydrology. To reproduce the climate more faithfully, we therefore apply statistical methods that correct these biases. Together with the Explore2 scientific community, we have selected two methods: ADAMONT and CDF-t. The 41 climate simulations chosen for Explore2 combined with these methods have produced a set of 82 climate simulations available as input data for the hydrological models. This represents significant progress compared with Explore 2070, which was based on just 6 simulations.”
Testimonial from our thematic dossier
Thematic dossier
The Explore2 project: hydrological projections to adapt water resource management
Explore2 is a first-of-its-kind project in Europe because of the mass of data produced. These projections and the associated technical documents, drawn up thanks to the collaboration of a large scientific community and two user committees, make it possible to undertake regional studies on the availability of water resources throughout the 21st century and to anticipate their management.
