A Europe South America network for climate change assessment and impact studies

9. BOULANGER, J P, G. BRASSEUR, A. F. CARRIL, M. CASTRO, N. DEGALLIER, C. EREÑO, J. MARENGO, H. LE TREUT, C. MENENDEZ, M. NUÑEZ, O. PENALBA, A. ROLLA, M. RUSTICUCCI, R. TERRA

CLIMATIC CHANGE

SPRINGER

Año: 2010 vol. 98 p. 307 - 329

0165-0009

The goal of the CLARIS project was to build an integrated European?South American network dedicated to promote common research strategies toobserve and predict climate changes and their consequent socio-economic impactstaking into account the climate and societal peculiarities of SouthAmerica. Reachingthat goal placed the present network as a privileged advisor to contribute to the design of adaptation strategies in a region strongly affected by and dependent onclimate variability (e.g. agriculture, health, hydro-electricity). Building the CLARISnetwork required fulfilling the following three objectives: (1) The first objective ofCLARIS was to set up and favour the technical transfer and expertise in earth systemand regional climate modelling between Europe and South America together withthe providing of a list of climate data (observed and simulated) required for modelvalidations; (2) The second objective of CLARIS was to facilitate the exchange ofobserved and simulated climate data between the climate research groups and tocreate a South American high-quality climate database for studies in extreme eventsand long-term climate trends; (3) Finally, the third objective of CLARIS was tostrengthen the communication between climate researchers and stakeholders, andto demonstrate the feasibility of using climate information in the decision-makingprocess.