iai-cop-14-directorate-report-annex5-ff7dc20ee7bf6842.pdf

The document details the implementation of twelve CRN II projects focused on environmental change, biodiversity, and climate risks across the Americas. Key activities include the establishment of research sites in countries such as Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina, the development of geospatial databases for Caribbean coastal scenarios, and the analysis of tropical cyclones and paleotempestology. The IAI Directorate emphasizes interdisciplinary cooperation, such as linking biodiversity projects and integrating fishery information systems to improve policy relevance.

• The IAI Directorate has actively fostered international and interdisciplinary science by linking CRN II projects and initiating regional cooperation, exemplified by the close collaboration between projects CRN2021 (Arturo Sanchez) and CRN2014 (Ricardo Berbara), which share protocols and sites in Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Venezuela.
• Project CRN2061 (Caribbean Coastal Scenarios) has compiled 477 regional-scale geospatial data layers and created 344 metadata parsable XML records to develop a model for various islands, with a first version being developed in Miami for transfer to university partners.
• Research into Caribbean hurricane risk and vulnerability, specifically through project CRN2050 (Paleotempestology of the Caribbean Region), emphasizes the necessity of long-term scientific data for adaptation strategies for small island developing states (SIDS).
• Project CRN2060 investigated adaptation strategies during the coffee crisis in Mesoamerica, identifying that farmers' livelihoods in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica have been impacted by price fluctuations, climatic events, and pests/diseases, with variations based on farm size, altitude, and organization level.
• Project CRN2017 (South American Emissions, Megacities, and Climate) is integrating four research areas—emissions scenarios, climate change down-scaling, chemical weather forecast networks, and aerosol characterization—to support Earth System Modeling in the Americas, with an IT research group in Chile optimizing grid computing.
• Project CRN2076 (SACC) is studying oceanic changes in South America, proposing a new mechanism for shelfbreak upwelling based on the downstream spreading of a cyclonic boundary current, such as the Malvinas Current, and has added a fishery and oceanographic information system called 'BioMare' to increase policy relevance.
• Project CRN2047 is documenting hydrological cycle changes in the American Cordillera, producing new tree-ring chronologies and compiling four centuries of precipitation, streamflow, and flood data for several Argentinean provinces and river basins.

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Chicago

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@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearchndiaicop14directoratereportannex5ff7dc20ee7bf6842pdf, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{iai-cop-14-directorate-report-annex5-ff7dc20ee7bf6842.pdf}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, url = {https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-14-directorate-report-annex5.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }