Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
The new version aims to improve support for local planners, policy leaders, and facility and resource managers by giving people a way to explore conditions projected for their locations in the coming decades.
The webinar will take place on February 5 from 10am to 11am EST and will cover methods for mapping urban heat, results from past campaigns, and lessons learned over the 20 different urban field campaigns conducted since 2015.
The workshop will be tailored around regional drought-related human health impacts, and help identify gaps and needs, collaborative opportunities, and ways to integrate the health sector into the Drought Early Warning System.
The research recently published in Science Advances found that atmospheric rivers accounted for 84% of flood damages, or $42.6 billion, across the western United States from 1978-2017.
As cities grow and rainfall patterns become more extreme, there is great need to tailor climate information to stormwater engineers.
A new report evaluated present-day infrastructure, design specifications, and procedures against expected climate change to better understand its future impact on Con Edison’s energy delivery systems in NYC and Westchester County through the 21st century.
The catalogue provides consistent estimates of large-scale drought and flood events over 1950-2016, their different characteristics, as well as long term risk.
To reduce the risk of heat illness that arrives with hot days, the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) encourages municipalities to gather data and produce a map of their community’s hottest neighborhoods. Pending availability of federal funds, NIHHIS intends to provide financial support to 20 cities where groups are willing to organize and run volunteer mapping campaigns, and then engage municipal leaders in addressing their issues of urban heat. The application for funding is now available.
The book aims to create a resource for regional land and resource managers and researchers that synthesizes the latest research on the historical and current status of landscape-scale drivers (including anthropogenic activities) and ecosystem processes, future projected changes of each, and the effects of changes on important resources in the region.
Frank Niepold, CPO’s Senior Climate Education Program Manager and Coordinator, will present on the state of climate literacy and educational literature to the National Academies of Science’s 32nd Meeting of the Board on Science Education.