**6. Acknowledgment**

This research was carried out within the IP project SESAME funded by the European Commission under Framework Programme 6 Key Action "Global change, climate and biodiversity", Contract No.2006-036949. Part of this research was carried also within the Committee for the Study of Climate Change Impacts, Bank of Greece. We thank the members of the above Committee for multiple support and ideas.

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**20** 

*1Brazil 2India* 

**Strengthening Regional Capacities for** 

**Providing Remote Sensing Decision** 

**Climate Variability and Change** 

Humberto A. Barbosa and T. V. Lakshmi Kumar

*Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL),* 

**Support in Drylands in the Context of** 

*1Laboratory of Analysis and Processing of Satellite Images (LAPIS),* 

*2Atmospheric Science Research Laboratory, SRM University, Kattankulathur,* 

Dryland ecosystems cover one third of the earth's total land surface, comprise areas with a ratio of average annual rainfall to evapotranspiration of less than 0.65 (MEA, 2005). These regions are fragile environments characterized by unreliable rainfall patterns and support livelihoods of over 2.5 billion people (Reynolds et al., 2007). Widespread episodes of drought, heavy precipitation and heat waves have been reported as a consequence of global sea level increase (Verdin et al., 2005). However, the projections of the impacts of global warming on regional climate are largely uncertain due to the complex and site-specific interdependencies among landscape properties, environmental traits and policy decisions (Boulanger et al., 2005). The predictions of climate changes and their impacts in those dry lands are important because of their characteristics affecting economic activity based on agriculture and the role of natural ecosystems in carbon sequestration and water budget, which could lessen or mitigate the impacts of global changes in the weather system of these

Climate variability and change play a significant role in dryland decision making, at various time scales. Decisions affected by climate considerations include both dryland hardware (infrastructure and technology) and software (management, policies, laws, governance arrangements). Strategic (decadal scale) and tactical (seasonal or interannual scale) decisions regarding such matters as infrastructure for storing water and dryland conservation measures must be made in the face of uncertainty about interdecadal, intraseasonal and

There is a need to understand changes that have occurred in the resources in dryland ecosystems that contain a variety of plant species that have developed special strategies to cope with the low and sporadic rainfall and extreme variability in temperatures A better understanding of various dynamics at work in drylands will put us in a better position to predict the future of the ecosystems. Sustainable land use under climate change requires

**1. Introduction** 

regions.

interannual flows.

