By Linen Luben Perez
Cuban News Agency
Translation: Ernesto Gutierrez Pino

The Center for the Climate (CENCLIM), of the Institute of Meteorology of Cuba, organizes and develops most of the investigations related with the climatic change and its impacts.

Some of its essential missions are the surveillance of the climate, the evaluation of its previous and current behavior, as well as the forecast of the causes.

But it mainly guarantees the organization of the climatic database starting from the observations developed by the National Net of Meteorological Stations.
Even, it promotes the climatic applications guided to socioeconomic sectors of the country, mainly the agriculture and the human health.

It counts on three work groups and other temporary ones for investigative necessities that cover basic lines: data and climatic applications, and surveillance of the climate.

Its Department of Agricultural Meteorology is specialized in the surveillance and evaluation of the meteorological conditions for the agricultural cultivations, the observance of the agriculture-meteorological drought, and the checkup to meteorological conditions that can favor the development of plagues and illnesses.

It is also in charge of the determination of the meteorological conditions that could contribute to forest fires.

If one takes into account that the terrestrial climate is the result of multiple interactions among the atmosphere, the oceans, the biosphere, and the solid land, the study of the climatic change is related with most of the associate natural sciences.

In that case, it is impossible to discard the economic sciences, because they have special interest when evaluating the impacts of the climate on the sectors, and the definition of the best measures and policies to face it.

The fact is that CENCLIM is much linked to the science of the climatic change, that is: investigations about the variations and changes of the climate in Cuba and its relationship with the fluctuations of the meteorological fields.

It equally studies the influences of El Niño on the climate of Cuba and the variations of the cyclonal activity on the national geographical area.

Its investigations cover the impacts of the variability and the climatic change around the water resources, the agriculture and the human health.

Such matters are of the maximum priority in this Caribbean island, which has used for many years a considerable part of its gross domestic product, as sustained demonstration of the improvement of the life's quality in the population.