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Geospatial Environmental Modeling of Climatic Hazards and Their Impacts (climateGEM)


Overview

Understanding climate requires the study of important geospatial and environmental components. For example, climatic hazards such as drought do not occur uniformly across a region, and the spatial patterns of such threats can and do change seasonally and interannually. Additional factors such as changes in elevation across an area make the resulting impacts vary even more. Through Geospatial Environmental Modeling (GEM) we assess and anticipate environmental impacts from climatic hazards at regional scales as they have played, are playing, and might play out over time.

Led by Jeremy Weiss, this new research focus of the laboratory integrates traditional analysis techniques from the atmospheric and related sciences with geospatial data modeling to investigate climatic hazards and their impacts. In addition to aggregating climate data in a state-of-the-art geographic information system (GIS), this new research focus will serve as the hub for web map visualization tools that enable the public to view geospatial data from new and potentially powerful research perspectives.


Web Map Visualization Tools

mapping areas potentially impacted by sea level rise


Related Research Focus Links

Climate-induced Vegetation Change
Climate Change and Sea Level
North American Drought Variability
Regional Climate Science and Assessment


Related Outside Links

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Initiative


Present and Recent Collaborators

A. Scheder Black, J. Weiss


Funding Agencies

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


References

Weiss, J.L., J.T. Overpeck, and B. Strauss. 2011. Implications of recent sea level rise science for low-elevation areas in coastal cities of the conterminous U.S.A. Climatic Change 105: 635-645.

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Weiss, J.L., C.L. Castro, and J.T. Overpeck. 2009. Distinguishing pronounced droughts in the southwestern United States: Seasonality and effects of warmer temperatures. Journal of Climate 22: 5918-5932.

Overpeck, J.T. and J.L. Weiss. 2009. Projections of future sea level becoming more dire. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106: 21461-21462.

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