Climate

WASHINGTON, July 27, – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is partnering with Microsoft to launch the "Innovation Challenge," a competition to develop software applications that help farmers, agriculture businesses, and consumers explore how climate change will affect their food systems. The Innovation Challenge… Continued

September 16-18, 2015 The National Academy of Sciences Building Washington, DC The Transportation Research Board will host a conference September 16-18, 2015 to provide transportation professionals with information about emerging best practices and research results on how to adapt surface transportation … Continued

To help communities, governments, businesses, and research institutions better understand and plan for the risks of storms, floods, and other climate-change-related impacts, the U.S. Government is enhancing accessibility and releasing today a collection of datasets containing scientific and technical information… Continued

Energy 1) How are fundamental energy resources impacted by climate? 2) How might changes in climate and natural resource availability impact energy conversion infrastructure and processes? 3) How might climate impact energy transmission and distribution systems? 4) How might energy … Continued

Transportation How will climate trends affect transportation systems and their future design? What parts of the transportation system will be most vulnerable to climate change?… Continued

Useful to Usable (u2u) offers a suite of online tools created to help farmers and agricultural advisers manage increasingly variable weather and climate conditions across the Corn Belt. They provide historical climate data that help inform purchasing, marketing and activity planning … Continued

In a continued effort to provide key datasets that support the process of developing resilience to climate change, thirteen additional datasets are now available in the Coastal Flooding theme. These datasets include: NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Sea Surface… Continued

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) interactive energy disruption maps combine real-time data feeds from NOAA's National Hurricane Center with more than 20 map layers showing the nation's energy infrastructure and resources. This new tool, available around the clock on the EIA… Continued

Ecosystem Vulnerability Help communities and natural resource managers determine if they are currently at risk from wildfires and if they will be impacted in the future due to wildfires becoming more prevalent and severe; Provide information to the public on… Continued

Coastal Flooding What areas currently are at greatest risk of coastal flooding? What areas are going to be impacted in the future as sea level rises? In what areas are there additional factors that add to the risk? Where are… Continued