| Sunday: Registration |
| 17:30 – 20:00 |
Registration at LATU. |
| Monday: Opening / Health |
| 7:45 – 8:45 |
Registration. |
| 8:45 – 10:30 |
Chair: Walter Baethgen. Rapporteur: Roberta Boscolo.
Welcome & Conference vision: Chairs and Local organizers.
Keynote Health:
Kristie L. Ebi:
Overview of a new scenario framework for climate change research.
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| 10:30 –11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Keynote Health:
Germán Póveda:
The Effects of Climate Change on Human Health in Latin America: Evidences, Exacerbating Factors, and Adaptation Strategies.
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Keynote General:
Roger Pulwarty:
Practice-relevant adaptation science and services across climate timescales: What is being learned?
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Q&A |
| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch break |
| 14:00 – 15:30 |
Invited Talks:
Pablo Suarez: Rethinking the Communication of Climate Knowledge: Towards Decision-based, Game-enabled Exploration of Forecasts.
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Paulo H. N. Saldiva: Mitigating health effects of climate changes: challenges and opportunities.
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Gilma Mantilla: Public Health and Climate: Opportunities and Challenges.
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| 15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee |
| 16:00 – 16:45 |
Climate Services Oral Session:
Chair: Clare Goodess. Rapporteur: Germán Póveda.
Simon Mason: The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS).
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Cecilia Hidalgo: Sustainable decisions and provision of climate services to the agriculture and water sectors of southeastern South America.
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Raúl Artiga: Regional Strategy on Climate Change and the Climate Forum of Central America. From knowledge management to political action. Challenges and Opportunities.
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| 16:50 – 18:00 |
Round table: Climate Science for Climate Services
Chair: Fernanda Zermoglio. Rapporteur: Carlos Ereño.
Julian Baez: Regional Climate Centers South America - RA III WMO.
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Bruce Hewitson,
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John Furlow,
Simon Mason: Climate Science for Climate Services.
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Willem Landman: Climate variability and change estimates of South American riverflow through statistical downscaling.
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| 18:00 - 19:30 |
Ice Breaker at LATU
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| Tuesday: Water & energy |
| 9:00 – 10:30 |
Chair: Rene Garreaud. Rapporteur: Tamara Cecilia Avellan.
Keynote Water & Energy:
Soroosh Sorooshian: Water Management in a Changing Climate: Challenges in the application of Hydroclimatological forecasting for decision making.
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Robert Wilby: Climate change impacts on freshwater and urban environments.
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Q&A |
| 10:30 –11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Invited Talks:
Koen Versbit: Examples of Climate Informing Decisions in Chile: Advances and Challenges at the National and Water Basin Level.
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Waldo Lavado: First steps in Hydroclimatological Services in Peru.
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| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch break |
| 14:00 – 15:30 |
Oral Session:
Chair: Peter van Oeveland. Rapporteur: Rene Garreaud.
Ana Nunes: An Integrated System for Analysis of Environmental Disasters and Risk Assessment.
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Rafael Terra: Introducing ENSO-related information in the management of the electric system in Uruguay: implementation and evaluation of two case studies.
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Fekadu Moreda: Incorporating realistic land-surface complexity in water availability forecasts for the Latin America and Caribbean region.
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Clare Goodess: Identification and translation of user needs for climate information - comparative experiences in the Caribbean and Mediterranean.
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Sandra García: Assessing drought risk in West Mediterranean basin from regional climate multimodel ensemble.
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| 15:30 – 16:30 |
Poster sessions and Coffee |
| 16:30 – 18:00 |
Round table: Water-Energy-Climate
Chair: Rene Garreaud. Rapporteur: Rene Garreaud.
F. Miralles-Wilhelm Introduction to Hydro-BID: A Regional Water Resources Management Simulation System for the Latin America and Caribbean Region.
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E. Savio Martins: Climate Forecasts and its use for reservoir inflow forecasts in annual water allocation: Challenges & Opportunities.
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Sebastian Vicuña: Climate knowledge and hydropower in Latin America.
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| Wednesday: Agriculture & ecosystems |
| 9:00 – 10:30 |
Chair: Holger Kray. Rapporteur: Diana Giraldo.
Keynote Agriculture & Ecosystems:
Walter Baethgen:, Climate information, products and tools to assist decisions and planning in the agricultural sector.
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Holm Tiessen: Understanding alteration in ecosystem dynamics.
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Q&A |
| 10:30 –11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Invited Talks:
Sandro Schlindwein: Integrating climate into decision making and planning: a systems view.
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Guillermo Podestá: How can we foster broader and more effective use of climate information to support decision-making in agricultural systems?
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Jose Paruelo: New agricultural models, some old problems.
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| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch break |
| 14:00 – 15:30 |
Oral Session:
Chair: Sandro Schlindwein. Rapporteur: Cecilia Hidalgo.
Federico Bert: Climate forecasts are only one part of the whole story: combining seasonal forecasts with other types of climate information in agricultural decision-making.
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Alberto Yanosky: Climate-smart grasslands management: Adapting to climate variability, reducing vulnerability of producers, and advancing toward inclusive low-carbon “green growth” in Uruguay.
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Diana Giraldo Mendez: Participatory Agro-Climatic Forecasts for risk management in agriculture.
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Alicia Natalia Zamudio: Understanding and addressing climate risk: Lessons from the Climate Risk Management Technical Assistance Support Project.
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Katie Kennedy Freeman: RapAgRisk for Rice in Guyana: Rapid Agricultural Supply Chain Risk Assessment Tool to Reduce Vulnerability in Agriculture.
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Hugo Berbery (presented by G. Podestá): A Joint Assessment of Soil Moisture Indicators (JASMIN): A community effort to respond to user.
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| 15:30 – 16:30 |
Poster sessions and Coffee |
| 16:30 – 18:00 |
Round table: Agriculture-Ecosystems-Climate
Chair: Walter Baethgen. Rapporteur: Sandro Schlindwein.
Holger Kray,
Daniel Osgood: Index insurance, agricultural development, and climate information.
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Patricia Ramírez: Ecosystems in Central America. Challenges and opportunities for climate knowledge application
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| 20:00 |
Conference Dinner:
It was held in Criolla Elías Regules (http://www.eliasregules.com). |
| Thursday: Coastal & urban environments. |
| 9:00 – 10:30 |
Chair: Celeste Saulo. Rapporteur: Matt Wilson.
Keynote Coastal & Urban environments:
Laura Gallardo: Urban and coastal environments in South America.
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Gabriel Vecchi: Towards regional predictions of tropical cyclone activity and hydroclimate.
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Q&A |
| 10:30 –11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Invited Talks:
Paulo Artaxo (presented by G. Raga): A new initiative of a Regional Assessment of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCP) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Omar Defeo: Sandy beach ecosystems and climate change.
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Graciela Raga: Effect of aerosols and land use/land cover change on rainfall: The Mexico City story.
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| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch break |
| 14:00 – 15:30 |
Oral Session:
Chair: Iracema Cavalcanti. Rapporteur: Graciela Raga.
Federico Robledo: Anticipando la crecida – Anticipating the flood.
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Alexis Tantet: An interaction network perspective on global sea surface temperature variability.
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Matthew Wilson: Flood Risk and Climate Change in Negril, Jamaica: an assessment of combined terrestrial and coastal flood risk driven by projections of future climate.
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Romeo Saldívar-Lucio: Assessment of ocean climate and its associated physical-biological response in northwest Mexico.
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Giulio Tirabassi: Air-sea interaction in the South Atlantic Convergence Zone.
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| 15:30 – 16:30 |
Poster sessions and Coffee |
| 16:30 – 18:00 |
Round table: Coastal zones-Urban environments-Climate
Chair: Rodney Martinez. Rapporteur: John Charlery.
Rodney Martinez: Coastal environments.
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Claudia Simionato: Drivers and stressors of coastal zones, research challenges and information needs for coastal management.
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Eric Alfaro: The necessity for tailoring seasonal climate forecast in Central America for urban and coastal areas, including physics and human dimensions.
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Jose Luis Genta: The Framework Programme of La Plata Basin countries: an experience of integrating actors, Academy, Services, Decision Makers, Users.
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| Friday: Climate monitoring and prediction in LAC |
| 9:00 – 10:30 |
Chair: Marcelo Barreiro. Rapporteur: Paula Gonzalez.
Keynote Climate:
Roberto Mechoso: Numerical Climate Modeling: State-of-the-art, Challenges, and a Program for Latin American and the Caribbean.
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Caio Coelho: Climate monitoring and prediction at sub-seasonal to seasonal time scales.
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Q&A |
| 10:30 –11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Invited Talks:
Carolina Vera: Regional Climate Monitoring: Current State and Perspectives.
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Henk Djikstra: Modelling Present-Day and Future Caribbean Sea Level Changes.
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Thomas Delworth: Detection, attribution and prediction of decadal-scale rainfall changes over South America using a high-resolution global climate model.
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| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch break |
| 14:00 – 15:30 |
Oral Session:
Chair: Caio Coelho. Rapporteur: Karolin Eichler.
Stefanie Talento: Simulated sensitivity of the tropical climate on extratropical thermal forcing.
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Matilde Rusticucci: Long-term variability of heat waves in Argentina and recurrence probability of the severe 2008 heat wave in Buenos Aires.
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Alice Grimm: Interdecadal variability during the monsoon season in South America.
Paula LM González: Comparing seasonal forecast downscaling methodologies for the agriculture sector in South Eastern South America.
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Ana C Vasques Freitas (presented by Tercio Ambrizzi): Impacts of austral winter Hadley circulation changes on stationary Rossby waves.
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Marisol Osman: Outcomes from the students and ECS lunch meeting.
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| 15:30 – 16:30 |
Poster sessions and Coffee |
| 16:30 – 18:00 |
Round table: Climate Services Challenges in LAC
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Chair: Celeste Saulo. Rapporteur: Alice Grimm.
John Furlow: Climate Services in Jamaica: Policy, Process, and Product.
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Clare Goodess: A perspective on the challenges and opportunities faced by the climate research community in taking the next steps towards developing climate services for Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Karolin Eichler: WMO Climate System Moni toring: Projects in Latin America.
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Closing |
| Presentations also availables: ftp://ftp.cima.fcen.uba.ar/pub/WCRP_Montevideo/prstt |
