1. Tasks Completed So Far: Inventory of CRU precipitation data holdings of monthly precipitation data Identification of long-thin and short-fat stations Requests for the extension up to year 2000/missing months has been submitted to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda Requests for daily data for the short-fat and long- thin data series Begun the download of GCM data from ECHAM4, HadCM3, NCAR Community Model and the CCCma model Begun acquisition of ‘observed’ gridded and station data – ERA40, NCAR etc.

2. Short-fat: Kenya 19 Uganda 3 Tanzania 9 Long-thin: Kenya 12 Uganda 5 Tanzania 6

3. 37 Kenya 16 Uganda 61 Tanzania

4. Timetable: TASK 3: Uncertainty analysis of future predictions based on monthly temperature and precipitation for East Africa February 2004 TASK 4a: Downscaling Part 1 – kriging of monthly data May 2004 TASK 1: Trends and extremes TASK 2: Climate drivers end Nov 2004 TASK 4b: Downscaling Part 2 – more complex downscaling of daily data May 2005 +3 months for slippage and paper writing