Observed and XXI Century Projected Climate Change in Argentina

BARROS, VICENTE; VERA CAROLINA; AGOSTA EDUARDO; ARANEO DIEGO; CAMILLONI INES; DOYLE MOIRA; CARRIL ANDREA; FRUMENTO OSCAR; NUÑEZ MARIO; SILVINA A SOLMAN

Sao Jose dos Campos

Workshop; IPCC Workshop on Regional Climate Projections and their Use in Impacts and Risk Analysis Studies; 2015

IPCC

In the framework of the Argentine Third national Communication to the UNFCCC it was made a study on observed and projected climate changes. Observed changes in temperature and precipitation were calculated from the monthly averages of the CRU 3.20 dataset that was based on interpolated data from the National Meteorological Service (NMS). These data have passed a double consistency process, first by the NM and then by CRU. Eleven indices of climate extremes were chosen for their relevance to potential impact studies and availability from ClimDex (Donat et al. 2013).Projected future changes in temperature and precipitation were estimated from the four models that best simulated the observed climate in each region, selected as described by Camilloni et al. (2015).