1. 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.

3. LA06:

4. LA29 Methodology for V&A:

5. SIS06, Methodology include:
Retrospective study (interdisciplinary)
Statistical downscaling
Pilot Project
SRES emission scenarios

6. Interdisciplinary teams work.
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 ?,…).

7. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

12. 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.