updated: 7 May 2009
"Climate assessments are collaborative processes where experts summarize and evaluate the current state of knowledge about variability and changes in the physical climate system and reach consensus conclusions that include confidence statements regarding these conclusions."
"Climate impact assessments are collective, deliberative processes by which experts review, analyze, and synthesize the effects of climate on natural and human systems in response to users' information needs to address to key questions, uncertainties, decisions or policies"
1) What type of climate impact
assessment? (Brief description in 1-3 sentences) What is the largest geographic scale assessment to consider?
2) What types and/or sources of climate data/information are being used? And how is this information being used? Downscaled, variables, ….
3) How was the climate information in the assessment produced? Use of data and manipulation versus off the shelf
4) What information/sources did they rely on? NOAA, IPCC, consultant, …
5) What information was lacking? Was not accessible. Not in a usable format or is buried in a cryptic database Does not exist. Data/information/research gap
6) How was uncertainty in projections of future climate and climate impacts dealt with in the climate impact assessment. Ignored, deterministic, probablistic,…..
7) How did the climate impact assessment feedback to influence or alter activities within NOAA such as data availability, observations and monitoring, modeling, forecasts, outlooks and projections? (if possible)
Overarching Questions
What near and long term opportunities are there for NOAA as part of
a national climate service to support future regional, state, local, or other climate impact assessment efforts?
Are there any best practices in terms of how regions, states, localities, or other groups have done climate impact assessments?
NTO summary (xcel file)
Uncertainty summary (ppt)
Arctic Climate Impacts Assessment
http://www.acia.uaf.edu/
NRC, 2007. Analysis of Global Change Assessments.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11868
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
http://www.maweb.org/en/index.aspx
IPCC Fourth Assessment: Synthesis Report
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_ipcc_fourth_assessment_report_synthesis_report.htm
IPCC Fourth Assessment: Working Group I
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm
IPCC Fourth Assessment: Working Group II
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg2.htm
IPCC Fourth Assessment: Working Group III
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg3.htm
Other IPCC Assessment Reports (First, Second and Third)
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.htm
NRC, 2008. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Transportation: Special Report.
http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12179
NRC, 2008. Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Understanding the Contributions to Infectious Disease Emergence: Workshop Summary.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12435
NRC, 2008. Hydrologic Effects of a Changing Forest Landscape.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12223
NRC, 2008. Ecological Impacts of Climate Change.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12491
NRC, 2006. Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11676
Annual State of the Climate Report
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2007/ann/bams/full-report.pdf
Monthly and Seasonal State of the Climate Reports
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/monitoring.html
Climate of 2008: February in Historical Perspective
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/feb/feb08.html
Climate of 2008 - U.S. Tornado Overview
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/index.php?report=tornadoes&year=2008
Climate of 2008 - Midwestern U.S. Flood Overview
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/flood08.html
Billion Dollar Weather Disasters Report Update
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/reports/billionz.html
Climate Impacts on U.S. Living Marine Resources: National Marine Fisheries Service Concerns, Activities and Needs (Ned)
http://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/tm/TM%20SPO%2089.pdf
U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change Overview Report, Foundation Report, and Regional and Sectoral Reports
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/nacc/default.htm (2000)
U.S. Climate Change Science Program Scientific Assessment (2008)
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/scientific-assessment/
Unified Synthesis Product: Global Climate Change in the United States (anticipated completion date: April/May 2009)
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/usp/second-public-review-draft/default.php
CCSP SAP 1.1: Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap1-1/default.php
CCSP SAP 1.2: Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap1-2/default.php
CCSP SAP 1.3: Re-analyses of historical climate data for key atmospheric features. Implications for attribution of causes of observed change
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap1-3/default.php
CCSP SAP 2.1: Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations and Review of Integrated Scenario Development and Application
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap2-1/default.php
CCSP SAP 2.2: North American carbon budget and implications for the global carbon cycle
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap2-2/default.php
CCSP SAP 2.3: Atmospheric Aerosol Properties and Climate Impacts
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap2-3/default.php
CCSP SAP 2.4: Trends in emissions of ozone-depleting substances, ozone layer recovery, and implications for ultraviolet radiation exposure
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap2-4/default.php
CCSP SAP 3.1: Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap3-1/default.php
CCSP SAP 3.2: Climate Projections Based on Emissions Scenarios for Long-Lived and Short-Lived Radiatively Active Gases and Aerosols
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap3-2/default.php
CCSP SAP 3.3: Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate
Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap3-3/default.php
CCSP SAP 3.4: Abrupt Climate Change
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap3-4/default.php
CCSP SAP 4.1: Coastal Sensitivity to Sea-Level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-1/default.php
CCSP SAP 4.2: Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-2/default.php
CCSP SAP 4.3: The effects of climate change on agriculture, land resources, water resources, and biodiversity
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-3/default.php
CCSP SAP 4.4: Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-4/default.php
CCSP SAP 4.5: Effects of Climate Change on Energy Production and Use in the United States
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-5/default.php
CCSP SAP 4.6: Analyses of the effects of global change on human health and welfare and human systems
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-6/default.php
CCSP SAP 4.7: Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure -- Gulf Coast Study
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-7/default.php
CCSP SAP 5.1: Uses and limitations of observations, data, forecasts, and other projections in decision support for selected sectors and regions
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap5-1/default.php
CCSP SAP 5.2: Best practice approaches for characterizing, communicating, and incorporating scientific uncertainty in decisionmaking
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap5-2/default.php
CCSP SAP 5.3: Decision support experiments and evaluations using seasonal to interannual forecasts and observational data
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap5-3/default.php
National Weather Service weather event assessments
http://www.weather.gov/os/assessments/index.shtml
North Carolina Coasts in Crisis
http://www.geology.ecu.edu/NCCoastsinCrisis.pdf
(Dave E: SUMMARY)
Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment
http://www.northeastclimateimpacts.org/
Central Valley Project and the State Water Project
http://www.usbr.gov/mp/cvo/ocap_page.html
(Robin: SUMMARY)
Biological Opinion on the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS)
https://pcts.nmfs.noaa.gov/pls/pcts-pub/pcts_upload.summary_list_biop?p_id=27149
(Ned: SUMMARY)
Northwest region salmon Endangered Species Act (ESA) recovery
http://www.nwr.noaa.gov/Salmon-Recovery-Planning/ESA-Recovery-Plans/Draft-Plans.cfm
NOAA/USDA Report on April 2007 Freeze Event
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/techrpts/tr200801/Easter%20Freeze_revised%20April%2028.pdf (Dave E: SUMMARY)
Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay
http://www.chesapeake.org/stac/
(Dave G: SUMMARY)
Climate Change in the Upper Willamette River Basin of Western Oregon
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/10713
Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment
http://arcticportal.org/pame/amsa
Impact of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Ecosystem - A NOAA Science Needs Assessment Workshop to Meet Emerging Challenges
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/Programs/climate_change/cc_workshop.html
http://www.ucsusa.org/greatlakes/
What caused the Sacramento River fall Chinook stock
collapse?
http://swfsc.noaa.gov/uploadedFiles/Operating_units/FED/Salmon_decline_report_March_2009.pdf
North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program
http://www.narccap.ucar.edu/
Alaska
http://www.climatechange.alaska.gov/
Arizona
http://www.azclimatechange.gov/download/O40F9347.pdf
(Kathy: SUMMARY)
Arkansas
http://www.arclimatechange.us/stakeholder.cfm
California
http://www.climatechoices.org/ca/site/our-changing-climate.html
Colorado
http://cwcb.state.co.us/Home/ClimateChange/ClimateChangeCOReport.htm
(Kristen: SUMMARY)
Connecticut
http://ctclimatechange.com/
Delaware
http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/ClimateChange/Pages/Climate%20change%20and%20Delaware.aspx
Florida
http://www.floridaoceanscouncil.org/reports/Climate_Change_Report.pdf
Georgia
http://www.cier.umd.edu/climateadaptation/Georgia%20Economic%20Impacts%20of%20Climate%20Change.pdf
Illinois
http://www.epa.state.il.us/air/climatechange/
Iowa
http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)IR.1943-4774.0000009
Kansas
http://www.ksclimatechange.us/background-impacts.cfm
Maine
http://www.climatechange.umaine.edu/Research/MaineClimate/index.html
Minnesota
http://www.mnclimatechange.us/background.cfm
Missouri
http://www.dnr.mo.gov/energy/cc/cc.htm
Montana
http://www.mtclimatechange.us/CCAC.cfm
Nevada
http://gov.state.nv.us/Climate/FinalReport/ClimateChangeReport.pdf
New Hampshire
http://des.nh.gov/organization/commissioner/pip/factsheets/ard/index.htm#ehp
New Mexico
http://www.nmclimatechange.us/ewebeditpro/items/O117F10151.pdf
http://www.nmenv.state.nm.us/aqb/cc/Potential_Effects_Climate_Change_NM.pdf
North Carolina
http://econ.appstate.edu/climate/NC-NCEP%20final%20report.031507.pdf
http://nsgl.gso.uri.edu/ncu/ncub03002.pdf
Oregon
http://www.oregon.gov/ENERGY/GBLWRM/docs/GWReport-FInal.pdf
Pennsylvania
http://www.northeastclimateimpacts.org/assets/climate-change-in-pennsylvania_impacts-and-solutions.pdf
Utah
http://www.deq.utah.gov/BRAC_Climate/final_report.htm
Virginia
http://www.deq.virginia.gov/info/climatechange.html
Washington
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/interimreport.htm
(Robin: SUMMARY)
Wisconsin
http://www.wicci.wisc.edu/
Climate Resilient Cities
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/EASTASIAPACIFICEXT/0,,contentMDK:21845641~pagePK:146736~piPK:226340~theSitePK:226301,00.html
The NYC DEP Climate Change Program Assessment and Action Plan
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/climate/climate_complete.pdf
(Kristen: SUMMARY)
Climate Change and Chicago: Projections and Potential Impacts
http://www.chicagoclimateaction.org/pages/research_reports/48.php
(Chad: SUMMARY)
