Specifically, the activity focuses on:

a) capacity building of early-career professionals on the application of Near Term Climate Change Scenario Analysis for applications in hydrology and drought vulnerability analysis; 

b) the development of a set of pilot basin case studies in the region that identify their exposure of climate change on hydrometeorological parameters; and

c) the determination of the vulnerability of inter-annual and decadal variability, as well as climate change impact on water resources in the pilot basins in the region.

• Tools provided to pilot countries to identify climatic variability on different timescales to be coupled with hydrological models
• Participants gained experience through one or more case studies on the application of the software provided to develop climate scenarios at near-term timescales (2020-2035)
• The participants count with a first version of these scenarios for one pilot basin in their country

A work plan defined for follow-up action and coupling of the climate scenarios with hydrological models

• International Workshop 'Development of near-term climate scenarios (2020-2035) for vulnerable watersheds to climatic variability at the interanual, decadal and climate change time scales'

An introductory workshop was held in La Serena, Chile, from 04-08 August 2014, with four pilot countries (Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia).

An overview of the course content and main outputs can be found here.

• The Second International Workshop 'Development of near-term climate scenarios (2020-2035) for vulnerable watersheds to climatic variability at the interanual, decadal and climate change time scales'

A follow-up workshop is to be held in Cartagena, Colombia, from June 30 to July 3 2015, with eight pilot countries (Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Honduras and Ecuador).

An overview of the course content and main expected results can be found here.