‘Using Regional Climate Change Scenarios for Studies on Vulnerability and Adaptation in Brazil and South America’

The main goal of this project is to provide high resolution climate change scenarios in the three most populated basins in South America for raising awareness among government and policy makers in assessing climate change impact, vulnerability and in designing adaptation measures.

Principal Investigator:
Dr. José A. Marengo, CPTEC/INPE-Center for Weather Forecasts and Climate Studies, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil.
Contact: marengo@cptec.inpe.br

‘Consistent assessment of global green, blue and virtual water flows in food production’

The project will derive for the first time a model-based, global yet geographically explicit quantification of green, blue and virtual water flows for the present and for scenarios of climate change and atmospheric CO2 enrichment. Thus it will contribute to the GWSP science framework in terms of a thorough quantification of interactions between physical and biological/biogeochemical components of the global water system, and the role of humans within this.

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Dieter Gerten, Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany. Contact: gerten@pik-potsdam.de