Latin American & Caribbean water cycle capacity building workshop

Key Objectives of the workshop

- Make current and future USA data more readily available to the countries of North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean in real—time whenever possible.
- Encourage ready access and exchange of Earth observation data.
- Provide high quality up—to—date information on current and future Earth observation system planning and implementation.

Fresh Water Component:

- Floods, Early warning systems - drought,
- Climate change impacts specific to glaciers,
- Climate change and crop’s adaptation,
- Weather observations and climate monitoring systems,
- Interdisciplinary observing systems
- Water Pollution.

Ocean Component:

- Early warning systems: Harmful Algal blooms (HABs),
- Coral reef protection,
- Rivers to Reefs connections,
- Assessment of ecosystems through ocean mapping,
- Database and information systems to evaluate fisheries migration in the context of ocean temperature increase,
- Capacity building in image classification and interpretation targeting HABs and ocean temperature
- Interdisciplinary observing systems

Topics

- Climate Change in Latin and Caribbean Americas
- Floods in Latin and Caribbean Americas
- Water Quality
- Ocean Acidification (Global)
- Waves
- Drought