chapter - Atmospheric and Oceanic Science

CURRÍCULA OF THE AUTHORS
Vicente Barros: Doctor in Meteorology (University of Buenos Aires, 1973). Full
professor in Climatology and Director of the Master in Environmental
Sciences at the Faculty of Natural and Exact Sciences, University of Buenos
Aires, Argentina. Senior investigator in the Center of Investigations of the
Sea and the Atmosphere (CIMA/CONICET). Publications in scientific magazines
with peer review: 55 papers on climatology, climatic changeability,
wind power and atmospheric circulation. Other scientific publications (chapters
in books, institutional reports, etc): 20. Coordinator of the National
Report to the Conference of United Nations on Sustainable Development and
Environment, Rio de Janeiro 1992,. Coordinator of the Background Report
for the First National Communication to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climatic Change. National Director of the Project
Greenhouse gases emissions inventory and studies of Climatic Change on
vulnerability and Mitigation 1997-1998. Coordinator of the Revision of the
First National Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climatic Change, 1997. Contributing author in the Third Report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climatic Change, Group 1, Chapter 12.
Robin Clarke: has degrees in mathematics and statistics from the universities of
Oxford and Cambridge, and a DSc in hydrology from the University of
Oxford. From 1970 to 1983 he was head of group of engineers, physicists
and mathematicians developing models of how river basins respond to rainfall
at the Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford; a particular responsibility was
to predict how river basin behaviour was modified by changes in land use.
In 1983 he was appointed Director of the Freshwater Biological Association,
funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council, and directed
freshwater research and ecological studies of UK lakes and rivers. He took
early retirement in 1988, and moved to Brazil for family reasons. Since 1988
he has been a visiting Professor at the Instituto de Pesquisas Hidráulicas,
UFRGS, in Porto Alegre, RS Brazil. As well as his academic career, he has
been a consultant at various times for international agencies including FAO,
UNDP, UNESCO, IAEA, WMO and WHO.
Pedro Leite da Silva Dias: Bachelor degree in Applied Mathematics (Univ. of São
Paulo/USP in 1974), MSc and PhD in Atmospheric Sciences by the
Colorado State University in 1977 and 1979, respectively. Professor at the
Institute Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences - IAG/USP since 1975.
Visiting researcher at NCAR and NCEP in the USA in several occasions.
Senior researcher of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and
heat of CPTEC between 1988 and 1990. President of the Brazilian
Meteorological Society between 1992 and 1994. Currently coordinates the
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