Changes in Koppen-Trewartha climate classification over South America from RegCM4 projections

Assessment of 21 Century Climate Change Projections in Tropical South America and the Tropical Andes

Climate change in Central America and Mexico: regional climate model validation and climate change projections

Central America has high biodiversity, it harbors high-value ecosystems and it’s important to provide regional climate change information to assist in adaptation and mitigation work in the region. Here we study climate change projections for Central America and Mexico using a regional climate model. The model evaluation shows its success in simulating spatial and temporal variability of tempera...

Regional climate change experiments over southern South America. II: Climate change scenarios in the late twenty-first century

We present an analysis of climate change over southern South America as simulated by a regional climate model. The regional model MM5 was nested within timeslice global atmospheric model experiments conducted by the HadAM3H model. The simulations cover a 10-year period representing present-day climate (1981–1990) and two future scenarios for the SRESA2 and B2 emission scenarios for the period 2...

A new river flooding scheme for global climate applications: Off-line evaluation over South America

[1] Given their strong interaction with both climate and the carbon cycle, wetlands and surface waters need to be parameterized in global general circulation models. For this purpose, a new simple flooding river scheme is proposed and evaluated over South America. The flood dynamics is described through the coupling between the ISBA land surface model and the TRIP river routing model including ...

Climate change and animal diseases in South America.

Climate strongly affects agriculture and livestock production and influences animal diseases, vectors and pathogens, and their habitat. Global warming trends predicted in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climatic Change (IPCC) report for South America are likely to change the temporal and geographical distribution of infectious diseases, including those that are vector-borne such as bluetong...