Hydrology BC ENV 3025

Water resources and climate change, global and in the Metro East Coast Region

Exercises

NOAA/NCDC climate data

The Global Historical Climatological Network Data set allows us to look at historical temperature and precipitation trends. Select a region using the mapping tool and then look for trends in temperature and precipitation.

What can you say about the future combined effects of the precipitation patterns and temperature patterns together on the region of your choice (if you extyraploate the existing trends)?

Main conclusions

Metro East coast assessment: climate change in the global city

Climate trends in Metro East region
Impact on water resources in Metro East Region

Future prediction of temperature and precipitation from extrapolating the results from Current Trend Scenario and Global Climate Models can have uncertainities.

Resources

IPCC website
IPCC 2007 report
EPA Global Warming: Impacts - Water Resources
NASA Giss
Metropolitan East Coast Assessment
U.S. Global Change Research Program
U.S. National Assessment - The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change