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Climate Change Reports by Date
Reports 1 - 10 of 793Joint Front Range Climate Change Vulnerability Study
- "Incorporates a unified regional approach to assess changes in the timing and volume of hydrologic runoff that might be expected from several climate change scenarios for the years 2040 and 2070. Calibrates and implements two hydrologic models, the WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning) model and the Sacramento Soil Moisture model. Also draws on historical streamflow data from the Colorado Water Conservation Board, regionally downscaled projections from the Bureau of Reclamation, and discussions with Western Water Assessment."
U.S. EPA National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change 2010-2011 National and Regional Highlights of Progress
- Summary of EPA's efforts to work with the water sector to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Includes many links to more information on EPA's web sites.
National Fish, Wildlife & Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy
- "In an unprecedented collaborative effort, federal, state, and tribal partners with input from many other diverse groups from across the nation are working together to develop a common strategy to respond to these challenges. The National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy will provide a unified approach -- reflecting shared principles and science-based practices -- for reducing the negative impacts of climate change on fish, wildlife, plants, and the natural systems upon which they depend." Comment period until March 5, 2012.
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions from Large Facilities
- Track emissions by place, by specific gases, by types of facility, by specific facility. Keywords: ghgdata
Climate Change and San Francisco Bay-Delta Tidal Wetlands
- "Climate change will affect tidal wetlands with higher rates of sea-level rise and higher concentrations of salt in brackish and freshwater tidal systems, in addition to causing increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration, warmer temperatures, and shifts in precipitation. In the San Francisco Bay-Delta, the areas most likely to be affected -- brackish and freshwater tidal wetlands -- are also the sites with the majority of endemic plant species and the greater biodiversity and productivity. Effects on the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary are complex and difficult to predict, but a few things are clear. Biodiversity of the tidal wetland system in the San Francisco Bay-Delta region will decline, with subsequent effects on ecosystem functioning and services. Altered plant production, physiological tolerances, and shifts in rates of mortality will modify wetland plant communities in ways not yet predictable. Lower ecosystem productivity from salinity increases will affect both primary and detrital-based food webs. Such changes will cascade via the food webs into invertebrate, bird, and pelagic systems. Tidal wetlands are especially sensitive to processes that climate change will alter. Several of these altered processes are exacerbated by water diversions from the Delta." (Parker, V. T., et al., 2011, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science)
A methodology for predicting future coastal hazards due to sea-level rise on the California Coast
- "The erosion method relates shoreline change rates to coastal geology then applies changes in total water levels in exceedance of the toe elevation to predict future erosion hazards. Results predict 214 km2 of land eroded by 2100 under a 1.4 m sea level rise scenario." (Revell, D. L., et al., 2011, Climatic Change)
Energy Efficiency Best Practices For North American Drinking Water Utilities
- "A compendium of best practices in the energy efficient design and operation of water industry assets. Compile(s) successful strategies to help water utilities reduce energy consumption in water transmission, treatment, storage, and distribution."
Second California Assessment: integrated climate change impacts assessment of natural and managed systems. Guest editorial
- "We provide here a brief introduction to the papers included in this Special Issue [on California] focusing on how they are coordinated and support each other. We describe the common set of downscaled climate and sea-level rise scenarios used in this assessment that came from six different global climate models (GCMs) run under two greenhouse gas emissions scenarios: B1 (low emissions) and A2 (a medium-high emissions). Recommendations for future state assessments, some of which are being implemented in an on-going new assessment that will be completed in 2012, are offered." (Franco, G., et al., 2011, Climatic Change)
Climate Change Handbook for Regional Water Planning
- "Developed cooperatively by DWR, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Resources Legacy Fund, and The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Climate Change Handbook for Regional Water Planning provides a framework for considering climate change in water management planning. Key decision considerations, resources, tools, and decision options are presented that will guide resource managers and planners as they develop means of adapting their programs to a changing climate. The handbook uses DWR's Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) planning framework as a model into which analysis of climate change impacts and planning for adaptation and mitigation can be integrated."
Stormwater Strategies: Cities Prepare Aging Infrastructure for Climate Change
- Projected increases in extreme precipitation are causing cities to re-examine their stormwater systems. (Kessler, R., 2011, Environmental Health Perspectives)
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