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Projects in Meso-America
  LA_06 Assessment of Impacts and Adaptation
Measures for the Water Resources Sector due to
Extreme Events under Climate Change Conditions in
Central America Countries Guatemala, Belize,
Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and
Panama. Sectors Water resources and interacting
sectors (Agriculture, tourism, disaster
management) PI Dr. Walter Fernández, UCR.
LA__29 Integrated Assessment of Social
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate
Variability and Change Among Farmers in Mexico
and Argentina Countries 2, Mexico and Argentina,
also includes Colombia, Brazil and Chile.
Sectors Agriculture and Water PI Dr. Carlos
Gay, UNAM.
SIS_06. The Threat of Dengue Fever Assessment
of Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change in
Human Health in the Caribbean. Countries
Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and St.
Kitts. Sectors Climate-Health and disease. PI
Drs. A. A. Chen, UWI and S. C. Rawlins, CAREC.
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LA06
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LA29 Methodology for VA
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SIS06, Methodology include

• Retrospective study (interdisciplinary)
• Statistical downscaling
• Pilot Project
• SRES emission scenarios

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The linkage between climate and non-climate
scenarios will be achieved by

• Interdisciplinary teams work.
• Future Global and Regional Scenarios (Tools like
  MAGICC SCENGEN, PRECIS ?,).

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Climate Information used by the three projects
includes

• 1.       Historical climatic data.
• a.       Local/regional data. Public domain
  databases. National Meteorological Services
  Local stations
• b.       Re-analyses (NCEP)
•  2. Aerological DataBases CARDS, PACS-SONET
• 3. GCM outputs.

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Variables required for I, A V assessment

• Temperature (Max., Min., Mean)
• Precipitation
• Solar Radiation
• Winds
• Runoff
• Also, some non-climate variables power
  generation, yields, population growth, GDP, etc.

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Some Critical Uncertainties in the projects are

• Spatial downscaling of climate and socio-economic
  scenarios.
• Behaviour of Extreme Events in climate change
  scenarios trends, frequency, intensity.
• Baseline.

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Spatial and Temporal scales include

• Spatial scale
• Local / Regional.
• Global. For climate change scenarios and
  downscaling techniques
•  Temporal daily, monthly, seasonal, annual,
  decadal.
• Baseline 1961-1990 or at least 30 years of data
  of the variables described.

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Other projects in the region

• Development of a regional climate model system
  for Central America. Supported by NOAA-OGP. PI.
  Dr. Jorge A. Amador, CIGEFI-UCR, Costa Rica.
• Climate variability and its impacts on the
  Mexican, Central American and Caribbean region.
  Supported by IAI as a CRN. PI. Dr. Victor Magaña,
  UNAM, México.
• When Oceans conspire Examining the effect of
  concurrent SST anomalies in the Tropical Atlantic
  and Pacific on Caribbean Rainfall. Supported by
  IAI as a PESCA project. PIs. Drs. Michael Taylor
  and Anthony Chen, UWI, Jamaica.
• Multi-objective study of climate variability for
  mitigation in the trade convergence climate
  complex. Supported by IAI as a CRN. PI. M.Sc.
  Pilar Cornejo, ESPOL, Ecuador.