Preliminary Climate and Sea Level Changes Through the Application of SimCLIM - Vanuatu

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  • Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    Vanuatu National Advisory Committee on Climate Change (NACCC), Vanuatu Meteorological Services, and CLIMsystems Ltd.
    Summary:

    Port Vila, Vanuatu and Hamilton, New Zealand - The Vanuatu National Advisory Committee on Climate Change (NACCC) through its Second National Communication (SNC) Project in collaboration with the Vanuatu Meteorological Services and CLIMsystems Ltd.

    Project Components:

    The Vanuatu National Advisory Committee on Climate Change (NACCC) through its Second National Communication (SNC) Project in collaboration with the Vanuatu Meteorological Services and CLIMsystems Ltd. of New Zealand have generated preliminary climate change and sea level rise results that will form the background for the country’s SNC reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

    Expected Outputs:

    Using the newly digitised site-specific time series daily data a preliminary analysis was done on some of the major sites selected for field survey for the Second National Communication.

    Another important activity completed during this visit enabled sea level data to be analysed using VanuaCLIM and other software products developed by CLIMsystems.

    Contacts:

    For additional detail on Vanuatu’s climate change initiatives, contact Brian Phillips, the Secretary of NACCC at the Vanuatu Climate Change Office: piccap@vanuatu.com.vu.

    Project Status:
    Completed.
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    Other
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