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Socio-economic variables <strong>and</strong> also some of the variables that drive climate<br />

may change in the future in many different ways, being impossible to predict<br />

which will be the actual one. Future climate scenarios are to be constructed<br />

according to certain hypothesis about future human activities that alter the composition<br />

of the atmosphere <strong>and</strong> as a consequence the global climate. This <strong>chapter</strong><br />

describes the different available methodologies for preparing future climate<br />

scenarios; in particular, the advantages <strong>and</strong> disadvantages of global climate models<br />

are introduced. Scenarios of climate change at global scale for the period<br />

2071-2100 with regard to 1961-90 baseline for surface temperature, precipitation<br />

<strong>and</strong> sea level pressure provided by an ensemble of global models are presented.<br />

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CHAPTER<br />

CLIMATE SCENARIOS<br />

Inés Camilloni 1 , Iracema Fonseca de Albuquerque Cavalcanti 2 <strong>and</strong> Tércio Ambrizzi 3<br />

ABSTRACT<br />

1 Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET, ARGENTINA.<br />

2 Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos/<br />

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brasil.<br />

3 Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil.<br />

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