High-Resolution Climate Projections and Dataset Development
Providing climate change information for impacts, decision-making, and climate science
High-Resolution Climate Projections and Dataset Development
Providing climate change information for impacts, decision-making, and climate science
Communicating Climate Information to Stakeholders
We curate and publishes output from high-resolution regional climate models for North America. These data archives provide climate change scenario data and guidance to scientists and stakeholders alike. This data has been in a wide variety of applications and research, including hydrology, ecology, health, wildfire, renewable energy, and agriculture; one example is a study of the effects of climate change on white-nose syndrome in bats. We also study uncertainty in climate projections.
Partners
- DoD ESTCP
- EPA
- NOAA
- NSF
- DoE
Representative Projects
- NA-CORDEX Data Archive - The North American CORDEX Program. Regional climate change scenario data and guidance for North America, for use in impacts, decision-making, and climate science.
- NARCCAP Data Archive - The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) is an international program to produce high resolution climate change simulations in order to investigate uncertainties in regional scale projections of future climate and generate climate change scenarios for use in impacts research.
Publications
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Building a climate service for North America based on the NA-CORDEX data archive
Description
McGinnis S. and L. O. Mearns, 2021: Building a climate service for North America based on the NA-CORDEX data archive, Climate Services, 22, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2021.100233.
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Regional climate change projections from NA-CORDEX and their relation to climate sensitivity
Description
Bukovsky M. S., and L. O. Mearns, 2020: Regional climate change projections from NA-CORDEX and their relation to climate sensitivity. Climatic Change, 162, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02835-x.
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The effect of modeling choices on updating intensity-duration-frequency curves and stormwater infrastructure designs for climate change
Description
Cook, L. M., S. McGinnis, and C. Samaras, 2020: The effect of modeling choices on updating intensity-duration-frequency curves and stormwater infrastructure designs for climate change. Climatic Change 159, 289–308 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02649-6.
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A regional climate change assessment program for North America
Description
Mearns, L. O., W. Gutowski, R. Jones, R. Leung, S. McGinnis, A. Nunes, and Y. Qian, 2009: A regional climate change assessment program for North America. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 90(36), 311-311, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009EO360002.
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Future population exposure to US heat extremes
Description
Jones, B., B. C. O’Neill, L. McDaniel, S. McGinnis, L. O. Mearns, and C. Tebaldi, 2015: Future population exposure to US heat extremes. Nature Climate Change 5(7), 652-655. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2631.
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Investigating the sensitivity of US streamflow and water quality to climate change: US EPA Global Change Research Program’s 20 Watersheds Project
Description
Johnson, T. E., J. B. Butcher, A. Parker, and C. P. Weaver, 2012: Investigating the sensitivity of US streamflow and water quality to climate change: US EPA Global Change Research Program’s 20 Watersheds Project. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 138(5), 453-464, https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000175 .
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Assessing climate change impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, water quality and crop production in subsurface drained field
Description
Jiang Q., Z. Qi, L. Xue, M.S. Bukovsky, C.A. Madramootoo and W. Smith, 2020: Assessing climate change impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, water quality and crop production in subsurface drained field. Science of the Total Environment, 705, 135969, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135969.
Contact
Linda Mearns
Head of RISC Program