2005-CRP01-CMY
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Enhancement of National Capacities in the Application of Simulation Models for the Assessment of Climate Change and its Impacts on Water Resources and Food and Agricultural Production |
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Theme I (from IPCC TAR WGII) |
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Countries Involved
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Australia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, USA |
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Project Leader
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Dr. Arshad Muhammad Khan, PAKISTAN |
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Summary of Project
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The biggest weakness of most of the South Asian countries, in the area of climate change research is the lack of sufficient expertise and experience in the development and use of mathematical models for assessment of the impact of global climate change on the climate of the country/region and the corresponding impacts on various socio-economic sectors of the respective countries. In fact it is due to this weakness that these countries have so far not been able to make much headway in the area of climate change research. The proposed project has therefore been designed with a strong capacity enhancement element, particularly in the application of climate change related models. The project will be implemented in the three South Asian countries: Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. These countries have common elements with respect to weather, the sources of surface water and agriculture. Because of their geographic locations, these countries can also be simultaneously covered in the model runs based on Regional Climate Models (RCM) for which the study regions are typically of size 5000 km x 5000 km. |
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