Climate Variability, Extremes and Change in the Western Tropical Pacific: New Science and Updated Country Reports 2014
This report documents the latest scientific understanding of large-scale climate processes, observations, extremes and projections in the western tropical Pacific. This report builds on the research published in Climate Change in the Pacific: Scientific Assessment and New Research, Volumes 1 & 2 (2011) and provides updated individual country reports for 14 Pacific Island Countries and Timor-Leste featuring the latest CMIP5-based global climate model outputs. The full report and chapter downloads are provided as WCAG2 compliant accessible PDF documents.
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- Cover, Forward and Contents [PDF, 1 MB]
- Abbreviation, Acknowledgements and Executive Summary [PDF, 1.5 MB]
- Chapter 1. Introduction to the Country Reports [PDF, 2.1 MB]
- Chapter 2. Cook Islands [PDF, 3.2 MB]
- Chapter 3. East Timor (Timor-Leste) [PDF, 2.2 MB]
- Chapter 4. Federated States of Micronesia [PDF, 3.3 MB]
- Chapter 5. Fiji Islands [PDF, 2.7 MB]
- Chapter 6. Kiribati [PDF, 3.6 MB]
- Chapter 7. Marshall Islands [PDF, 3.2 MB]
- Chapter 8. Nauru [PDF, 2.3 MB]
- Chapter 9. Niue [PDF, 2.5 MB]
- Chapter 10. Palau [PDF, 2.6 MB]
- Chapter 11. Papua New Guinea [PDF, 2.9 MB]
- Chapter 12. Samoa [PDF, 2.5 MB]
- Chapter 13. Solomon Islands [PDF, 2.8 MB]
- Chapter 14. Tonga [PDF, 2.6 MB]
- Chapter 15. Tuvalu [PDF, 2.6 MB]
- Chapter 16. Vanuatu [PDF, 2.7 MB]
- References, Glossary and Appendix [PDF, 4.2 MB]