Meeting: Workshop on Integrated Climate Risk Assessment, 2-6 Nov. 2009, Nairobi, KEClimate models can visually represent a climate system. Downscaling tools can add finer scale climate projection information. The example provided is the General Circulation Model (GCM). With the PRECIS (Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies) application to allow for regional climate modeling, GCM can provide grid-scale averages of spatio-temporal hydro-climatic state variables as well as soil hydrology and thermodynamics, and some vegetation dynamic variables. The presentation outlines drivers of climate change. It provides a family of scenarios that factor in different variables such as greenhouse gas emissions, with tools that can be used to project outcomes
