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Alaska Climate Futures (mid and late 21st century) and Historical References (20th century)

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Publication Date
Start Date
1910
End Date
2100

Citation

Littell, J.S., 2024, Alaska Climate Futures (mid and late 21st century) and Historical References (20th century): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9DHBMZ5.

Summary

To meet the climate change planning and adaptation needs of Alaska managers and decision makers, I developed a set of statewide summaries of available climate change projections that can be further subset using GIS techniques for requests by management unit, watershed, or other location. This facilitates the development of tailored climate futures for decision makers’ regional or subregional management context. This file describes the source data and summaries for purposes of technical /scientific documentation. The methods and presentation for these datasets were adapted from products in previous USGS-approved IP products for the AKCASC Building Resilience Today project (e.g, Community of Kotlik et al. 2019). For each data product [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Jeremy Littell
Originator :
Jeremy Littell
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Climate Adaptation Science Centers
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Deltas_2km_sources.zip 17.71 MB application/zip
Deltas_771m_sources.zip 382.52 MB application/zip
Deltas_TerraClimate_sources.zip 14.45 MB application/zip
Littell Climate Projections Data Release 21Apr23.docx 33.05 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

Purpose

Climate summaries that meet the assessment, planning, and adaptation needs of decision makers and managers in Alaska have to date been largely inaccessible. I computed, from other publicly available datasets, summaries of temperature, precipitation, snowpack, permafrost, and landscape changes often requested by those seeking climate information or climate services. The climate future summaries are not forecasts, rather should be thought of as projections given estimated changes from climate models referenced to historical conditions.

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Communities

  • Alaska CASC
  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
  • USGS Data Release Products

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9DHBMZ5

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