Knowledge for Development

The CARIWIG project

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Date: 07/03/2013

Introduction:

The Caribbean Weather Impacts Group (CARIWIG) aims to inform policymakers in the Caribbean on the likely impacts of climate change specific to their region. Current weather and climate models appear of limited use in this respect due to scale and bias issues and locally relevant data remains sporadic. CARIWIG will addresses these issues through the provision of locally relevant information on the weather impacts of climate change, training of technical staff, the development of support networks within the region and with UK research institutes. A web service will be developed to provide this service through the adaptation and provision of leading weather-generator models from the EARWIG (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136481520700031X) and the UKCIP09 climate knowledge systems. 

http://www.cariwig.org/  

(CARIWIG, 01/2013)