Climate

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

Human Health 1. In what ways does the changing climate affect public health where I live? 2. What risk factors make individuals or communities more vulnerable to climate-related health effects? 3. How can public health agencies, communities, and individuals plan... Continued

Ecosystem Vulnerability 1. 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. 2. Provide information to the public on their sources of water and their sensitivities to climate change. 3. Aid in the public understanding... Continued

Coastal Flooding 1. What areas are currently at greatest risk of coastal flooding? 2. What areas are going to be impacted in the future as sea level rises? 3. In what areas are there additional factors that add to the risk?... Continued

In a continued effort to provide key datasets that support the process of developing resilience to climate change, eleven additional datasets are now available in the Coastal Flooding theme. These datasets include: NOAA Optimum Interpolation 1/4 Degree Daily Sea Surface… Continued