List of Documents

Session 1: Simulating regional climate variability and change: Present and future prospects for delivering information to support impact and adaptation work.
	The present ability of coupled GCMs to simulate large-scale modes of variability influencing regional climates over tropical regions	*B.N. Goswami*
	Interactions between climate and air pollution and aerosols, and its implications for environmental change	*S. Liu*
	From Global Climate Models to Earth System Models: Expected model improvements from AR4 to AR5	*V. Ramaswamy*
Session 2: Defining regional climate change: Requirements & ability to deliver
	Regional/local climate change, the WG1 perspective	*F. Zwiers*
	Regional/local climate change needs and requirements, the WGII perspective	*K. Ebi*
	Regional/local climate projections: present ability and future plans	*R. Jones*
	Use of regional/local climate information in impact assessment and adaptation work: present knowledge and future needs	*T. Carter*
	Time and spatial scale needs for adaptation and mitigation studies, from decadal prediction to long term stabilization	*R. Horton*

	Regional Climate Information needs for impact and adaptation work: Experiences from Asia	*G. Srinivasan*
	Regional Climate Information needs for impact and adaptation work in South America	*S.C. Chou*
	How do we best define and meet the regional climate information required. Making the demands and the ability to deliver meet and evolve together	*C. Vera*

Session 3: Generating and using regional/local climate information
	Techniques for dynamical downscaling	*M. Deque*
	Where and when should one hope to find added value from dynamical downscaling of GCM data	*R. Laprise*
	Empirical statistical downscaling	*B. Hewitson*
	What regionally-relevant climate change information will CMIP5 provide?	*K. Taylor*
	Overview of Regional Climate Model evaluation activities at JPL	*P. Lean*
	Discussion: Key focus: How do we improve, evaluate and where possible standardize downscaling techniques for use in impact/ adaptation work	*D. Jacob*
Session 4: Representing and dealing with uncertainties in regional climate projections/predictions
	Deadling with uncertain climate information in adaptation to climate change	*S. Dessai*
	Probabilistic climate prediction/projection from the decadal to the centennial time scale	*J. Murphy*
	Use of probabilistic climate change information for impact and adaptation work	*C. Goodess*
	CORDEX	*C. Jones*
	Discussion Key focus: Uncertainties: their representation and presentation in impact/adaptation work	*W. Gutowski*

Session 4: Timescales of importance for climate information
	Inter-annual to decadal climate prediction	*M. Latif*
	Climate data and user demands, bridging the gap: Experience from seasonal forecasting	*S. Zebiak*
	Detection and attribution on climate change at regional scales	*P. Stott*
Session 5: Key Information gaps and Research needs to close such gaps
	Climate change and low lying states: Sea level, flooding and storms	*A. Rahman*
	Extreme events in a changing climate	*C. Schär*
	Monsoons and Climate Change	*K. Kumar*
	The hydrological cycle in global or regional models : a challenge for climate physicists	*F. Hourdin*
	AMMA: A European-African collaboration in understanding, observing and simulating the west African monsoon	*J. Polcher*
	How to best make progress on closing the research gaps?	*R. Laprise*