Background

Meetings

• Brazilian proposal side event at SBSTA 20, Bonn, Germany, 21 June 2004
• Informal meeting on the evaluations of the proposal during COP 4, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10 November 1998
• Expert meeting on scientific aspects and data availability, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil ,19-20 May 1999
• First UNFCCC expert meeting, Bonn, Germany, 28-30 May 2001
• Second UNFCCC expert meeting, Bracknell, UK, 25-27 September 2002
• Brazilian Proposal Third Expert Meeting, Berlin, Germany, 8-9 September 2003

Modelling exercise on the assessment of contributions to climate change

• Letter to Parties and experiment details
• Data links
• Parameters for tuning a simple carbon cycle model
• Parameters for tuning a simple climate model (plus aerosol forcing)
• FAQ (frequently asked questions)
  
  Participants
• List of participants (Phase I & II of the experiment)
  
  Results
• Results phase I & Collated results phase I
• Results phase II 
• Second UNFCCC expert meeting, Bracknell, UK, 25-27 September 2002 (including presentation of results)

Recent developments

• Ad hoc group for the modelling and assessment of contributions of climate change" (MATCH), web site launched in Nov 2003
• Brazilian Proposal Third Expert Meeting, Berlin, Germany, 8-9 September 2003
• Letter from The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme: A Study of Global Change (IGBP)
• Information from the Word Climate Research Programme, WMO, Geneva

Acknowledgement:The initial set-up of these pages as well as their maintenance until Dec 2002 was done by the Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia, UK, on behalf of the UNFCCC. Thanks to Sarah Raper and Mike Salmon.