iPCC technical Paper Vi Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE Bryson Bates CSIRO Australia Jean Palutikof Met Office Hadley Centre United Kingdom Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany This paper was prepared under the management of the IPCC Working Group II Technical Support Unit June 2008 Edited by