Climate Variability and Change in Zimbabwe

Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2011-02-08 19:40
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Author(s):
GoZ-UNDP/GEF: Coping with Drought and Climate Change
Year:
2010
City:
Harare
Summary:

Projections of future climate depend on the future level of heat trapping gases. Climate projections for Zimbabwe are for a warmer future climate. It is estimated that there will be:

  • Warming of 0.5 to 2 ºC by 2030 and 1 to 3.5 ºC by 2070 compared to the 1961- 1990 average.

Research on Farming Systems Change to Enable Adaptation to Climate Change

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2010-07-09 16:44
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Author(s):
University of Namibia
Year:
July 2008
Editor:
Undertaken for the Ministry of Environment and Tourism and the United Nations Development Program Namibia, in preparation of Namibia’s Second National Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Pages:
127
Summary:

This report seeks to compile a current account of farming systems and the changes that farmers are experiencing in Namibia. This study seeks to enable adaptation to climate change based on the information gathered. The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, were involved in assisting and executing the study. The Environmental Conventions and Related Programs Unit of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism were also involved.

Cambodia Climatology Temperature Means

Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2010-07-05 17:59
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Summary:

The images and data featured below show the temperature means in Cambodia by month. The scales for the temperature maps are the same for all months. The images were created by Dr. Michael J. Puma, Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

The data used to create the images were downloaded from WorldClim - Zone 29 and are based on the methodology described in: Hijmans, R.J., S.E. Cameron, J.L. Parra, P.G. Jones and A. Jarvis, 2005.

Cambodia Climatology (~1950 to 2000)

Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2010-07-05 16:45
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Summary:

The images and data featured below were downloaded from WorldClim - Zone 29 and are based on the methodology described in: Hijmans, R.J., S.E. Cameron, J.L. Parra, P.G. Jones and A. Jarvis, 2005. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology 25: 1965-1978.

A detailed methodology is presented in the above paper. Hijmans et al. (2005) generated the data through interpolation of average monthly climate data from weather stations on a 30 arc-second resolution grid.

C-Learn - Climate Interactive

Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2009-06-30 19:41
Summary:
Background

C-Learn is an online freeware interactive climate simulator.

C-Learn is the 3-region version of the scientifically-reviewed policy-maker-oriented 15-20 region simulator "C-ROADS" built by Sustainability Institute, Ventana Systems, and MIT. You may have seen C-ROADS output in Jonathan Pershing's plenary presentation in April at
Bonn.