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Information on Climate Change Impacts

More information about Climate Change Impacts efforts can be found at:

United States Global Change Research Program

• Report: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
• Synthesis and Assessment Products

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Temperature and Precipitation Extremes in the 20th and 21st Century as simulated by Climate Models used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)

National Climate Change Assessments

Federal Highway Administration

• Highways and Climate Change

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• National Climatic Data Center
  • Annual State of the Climate Report (2007)
    
  • Monthly and Seasonal State of the Climate Reports
    
    • Billion Dollar Weather Disasters Report Update
    • Climate of 2008: February in Historical Perspective
      
    • Climate of 2008 - U.S. Tornado Overview
      
    • Climate of 2008 - Midwestern U.S. Flood Overview
      
• Assessments
  • Climate Impacts on U.S. Living Marine Resources: National Marine Fisheries Service Concerns, Activities and Needs

National Resource Council

• 2006. Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years.
• 2008. Ecological Impacts of Climate Change.
• 2008. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Transportation: Special Report - 290.
  
• 2008. Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Understanding the Contributions to Infectious Disease Emergence: Workshop Summary.
• 2008. Hydrologic Effects of a Changing Forest Landscape.

U.S. Climate Change Science Program

• Assessments
  • U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Scientific Assessment (2008)
    
  • Unified Synthesis Product: Global Climate Change in the United States (anticipated completion date: April/May 2009)

Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP)

• SAP 1.1: Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences
• SAP 1.2: Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes
• SAP 1.3: Re-analyses of historical climate data for key atmospheric features. Implications for attribution of causes of observed change
• SAP 2.1: Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations and Review of Integrated Scenario Development and Application
• SAP 2.2: North American carbon budget and implications for the global carbon cycle
• SAP 2.3: Atmospheric Aerosol Properties and Climate Impacts
• SAP 2.4: Trends in emissions of ozone-depleting substances, ozone layer recovery, and implications for ultraviolet radiation exposure
• SAP 3.1: Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations
• SAP 3.2: Climate Projections Based on Emissions Scenarios for Long-Lived and Short-Lived Radiatively Active Gases and Aerosols
• SAP 3.3: Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands
• SAP 3.4: Abrupt Climate Change
• SAP 4.1: Coastal Sensitivity to Sea-Level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region
• SAP 4.2: Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems
• SAP 4.3: The effects of climate change on agriculture, land resources, water resources, and biodiversity
• SAP 4.4: Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources
• SAP 4.5: Effects of Climate Change on Energy Production and Use in the United States
• SAP 4.6: Analyses of the effects of global change on human health and welfare and human systems
• SAP 4.7: Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure -- Gulf Coast Study
• SAP 5.1: Uses and limitations of observations, data, forecasts, and other projections in decision support for selected sectors and regions
• SAP 5.2: Best practice approaches for characterizing, communicating, and incorporating scientific uncertainty in decisionmaking
• SAP 5.3: Decision support experiments and evaluations using seasonal to interannual forecasts and observational data

U.S. Global Change Research Program

• U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change Overview Report, Foundation Report, and Regional and Sectoral Reports

Regional Climate Change Assessments

Chesapeake Bay Program's Scientific and Techincal Advisory Committee

• Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay

ECU Geological Services

• North Carolina Coasts in Crisis

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• National Maritime Fisheries Service
• Biological Opinion on the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS)
• Northwest region salmon Endangered Species Act (ESA) recovery
• What caused the Sacramento River fall Chinook stock collapse?
• United States Department of Agriculture
• Report on April 2007 Freeze Event
• Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab
• Impact of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Ecosystem - A NOAA Science Needs Assessment Workshop to Meet Emerging Challenges

National Weather Service

• National Weather Service weather event assessments

North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program

• North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program

Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment

• Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment

Union of Concerned Scientists

• Impact of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Ecosystem - A NOAA Science Needs Assessment Workshop to Meet Emerging Challenges

U.S. Department of the Interior/ Bureau of Reclamation

• Central Valley Project and the State Water Project

Adaptation Guidance

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Adapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State Coastal Managers

reviewed 15 Nov 2011

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