PLOS Climate Review series: 15 years of CORDEX

PLOS Climate is pleased to be working with CORDEX on a series of Review articles entitled “15 years of CORDEX: achievements, progress and challenges”. Articles will cover: 1) the CORDEX legacy for science and decision making, 2) large-domain regional climate projection ensembles covering all continental regions, 3) Flagship Pilot Studies (FPS) that address specific scientific questions related to physical processes and climate downscaling (dynamical and statistical), and 4) perspectives on key future challenges (e.g., convection permitting, sea-ice and ocean modeling, and artificial intelligence). Articles in this series will delve into the successes, lessons-learned, and persistent challenges within each domain and FPS, as well as synthesising overall achievements and challenges.

Information for authors

We expect that the majority of submissions will fall under PLOS Climate‘s Review article type, but we will consider submissions under other article types as appropriate. Our guidelines for Review articles are available here, and guidelines for other article types can be found on this page.

There are no publication fees for Reviews, Essays, or Opinion articles. Information on fees for Research Articles can be found here. Submissions will be subject to peer review, handled by members of PLOS Climate‘s editorial board.

We invite all contributing authors to finalise their submissions by 31st October 2025. Submissions can be made through our Editorial Manager portal. Authors should identify their submissions by including ‘CORDEX’ in the Collections field of the submission form.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact PLOS Climate‘s Executive Editor, Jamie Males.

We would like to acknowledge the support of Jason Evans, PLOS Climate Section Editor for Atmosphere & Oceans, in co-ordinating this project.