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SCENGEN allows the user to view climate scenarios for one of four pre-defined regions in addition to viewing global fields. These regions are Europe, southern Africa, south Asia, and the USA. Their domains are shown on the global map. Although the climate change information from the GCMs shown for these regions is identical to that shown globally (i.e., it is 5deg latitude/longitude resolution information), the regions contain high resolution (0.5deg latitude/longitude) 1961-90 mean monthly baseline climatologies onto which the GCM change patterns can be superimposed. The regions also contain a larger set of climate Variables than exist for the global field: maximum and minimum temperature, diurnal temperature range, wind speed and vapour pressure, in addition to mean temperature, precipitation and cloud cover.