Climate Change Projections

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Climate Change Projections

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For the first time, maps and summaries of historical and projected temperature and precipitation changes for the 21st century for the continental U.S. are accessible at a county-by-county level on a website developed by the U.S. Geological Survey in collaboration with the College of Earth, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University.

The maps and summaries are based on NASA downscaling of the 33 climate models used in the 5th Climate Model Intercomparison Project and the current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report. The resulting NASA dataset is on an 800-meter grid with national coverage.

The USGS leveraged this massive dataset and distilled the information into easily understood maps, 3-page summaries and spreadsheet compatible data files for each state and county in the United States. A similar implementation for the USGS nested hydrologic units will be available in the next month.

To learn more, please view the complete USGS release here.

The maps and summaries are available here.

More information about USGS Climate and Land-Use Research is available here.

Learn more about NCCWSC at https://nccwsc.usgs.gov and the CSCs at http://www.doi.gov/csc/index.cfm.

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