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Investigator(s): Sascha Petersen, Chris Allan, Gregg Garfin, Katharine Hayhoe, Leah Kos, Sarah LeRoy, Karen MacClune, Ellu Nasser, Rachel Riley, Mark Shafer, Melissa Stults
Research Dates: 2014 - 2017
Affiliate Organization(s): Climate Assessment for the Southwest (University of Arizona) • Institute for Social and Environmental Transition-International • Local Governments for Sustainability • University of Oklahoma • University of Arizona • Adaptation International • Institute for Social and Environmental Transition • Texas Tech University
This project developed and tested a community-specific participatory process to identify and develop climate projections around impact-relevant extreme events and guide climate change adaptation and resilience efforts. Over the course of 2015 and 2016, four small- to medium-sized communities in the South Central United States joined a multi-disciplinary team to:
- Collaborate on identifying critical thresholds for extreme weather events in their communities;
- Create downscaled climate projections specific to those thresholds;
- Review the customized climate projections; and
- Identify and implement a resilience action project.
SCIPP worked with two of the four communities, Miami, Oklahoma and San Angelo, Texas. For more information, please see the project materials that are linked below.
- Project Overview
- Videos describing project and outputs
- Case study reports for Miami and San Angelo
- Climate descriptions of Miami and San Angelo
- Presentation at 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society
- Poster at 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society
This project received funding from the NOAA Sectoral Applications Research Program.