Climate Projections for South America: RegCM3 Driven by HadCM3 and ECHAM5

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...

The aerosol-climate model ECHAM5-HAM

The aerosol-climate model ECHAM5-HAM P. Stier, J. Feichter, S. Kinne, S. Kloster, E. Vignati, J. Wilson, L. Ganzeveld, I. Tegen, M. Werner, Y. Balkanski, M. Schulz, and O. Boucher Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany Institute for the Environment and Sustainability, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany Max P...

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...

Past Climate Variability in South America and Surrounding Regions

Paleorainfall variability on orbital and millennial time scales is discussed for the last glacial period and the Holocene, based on a multi-proxy study of speleothem records from Brazil. Oxygen isotope (δ18O) records from Botuverá and Santana caves, precisely dated by U-series methods, indicate stronger summer monsoon circulation in subtropical Brazil during periods of high summer insolation in...