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Posted
Dec 13, 2013
Physical Climate, Modeling, Adaptation

New USGS Website Has Climate Projections for Your County

What does the future of climate look like where you live? For the first time, maps and summaries of temperature and precipitation projections for the 21st century are accessible at a county-by-county level, thanks to a website developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in collaboration with the College of Earth, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University.
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Posted
Dec 9, 2013
Oceans, Physical Climate, Modeling, Arctic, Extreme Events

US CLIVAR Releases New Science Plan

US CLIVAR ( Climate Variability and Predictability Program) has released a new Science Plan outlining its research goals and strategies for the next 15 years.
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Posted
Nov 26, 2013
Adaptation, Agriculture & Food, Extreme Events, Modeling, Observations

New Federal Partnership to Help Communities Prepare for Drought

As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the Administration recently announced an interagency National Drought Resilience Partnership to help communities better prepare for future droughts and reduce the impact of drought events on livelihoods and the economy.
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Posted
Jul 22, 2013
Physical Climate, Scenarios, Modeling, Carbon Cycle, Energy

New NASA Visualizations Show Two Futures of Climate Change

Two recently released animated NASA visualizations developed to support the forthcoming third US National Climate Assessment show projections of Earths temperature and precipitation patterns from today through the year 2100, revealing how low versus high emission scenarios would impact the planets climate.
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Posted
Jun 12, 2013
Physical Climate, Modeling, Carbon Cycle, Arctic

Is A Sleeping Climate Giant Stirring in the Arctic?

NASA's Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) is probing deep into the frozen lands above the Arctic Circle in Alaska to measure emissions of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane from thawing permafrost signals that may hold a key to Earth's climate future.
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Posted
Jun 7, 2013
Oceans, Scenarios, Modeling, Coasts, Ecosystems & Biodiversity

San Francisco Bay Area Could Lose Marshes to Sea-Level Rise

According to a new U.S. Geological Survey report, San Francisco Bay - which has already lost the majority of its marsh habitat since the 19th Century - could lose even more marshes by the year 2100, due to sea level rise.
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Posted
May 7, 2013
Modeling, Water Resources

Climate Change and Watersheds: Exploring the Links

A recent EPA report combines climate change models and watershed simulations to develop a better understanding of what changes to streams and rivers we might expect over the next several decades.
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