Understanding climate impacts on food, forestry and ecosystem
services in an integrated way. We develop current climate models
to represent key aspects of the land surface including crops,
irrigation and forests. In this way we aim to make impacts
assessments more consistent with the associated regional and
global projections of climate change. Our work has strong links
to other sectors in Climate Impacts, such as water resources, so
that indirect impacts of climate change can be included in our
assessments. We work at both regional and global scales looking
at long-term climate mitigation questions as well as short-term
adaptation options. This project has involved close
collaboration with the Brazilian National Institute for Space
Research to produce regional model projections of climate change
for Brazil. In addition, the regional model has been developed
to include dynamic vegetation. This enables an assessment of how
climate change may affect the vegetation - including the Amazon
rainforest -and how dire