Regional Climate Projections

Water Resources and Snowpack

Human Health and Disease

Heat Watch-Warning Systems

Energy Use and Emissions

Greenhouse Gas Controls and Abatement Strategies

Natural Ecosystems, Including Forests and Wildlife

Agriculture and Managed Lands

Educational and Outreach Products

 

 

The projects undertaken here at ATMOS Research address a wide range of topics, including regional climate change assessments, greenhouse gas emissions, controls and abatement strategies, atmospheric chemical transport modeling, and multi-scale analysis of interactions between the global environment and local to regional-scale climate, water resources, air quality, and human health.

Typical products include:

  • Reviews of the latest scientific literature on a specific topic

  • Charts, graphics and maps of past, present and future emissions or climate characteristics of a region

  • High-resolution statistically-downscaled projections of future changes in climate characteristics (temperature, precipitation, humidity, streamflow, soil moisture, and snowpack) based on the latest global climate model simulations

  • Calculations of projected future changes in relevant climate indicators, such as temperature thresholds for agricultural crops, or the occurrence of heavy rainfall events for municipal sewer system planning

  • Evaluation of future greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions and control strategies, and their impacts on climate change and regional air quality

  • Data formatted to the client’s requirements, to be used as input to a specific impacts model or commercially-available visualization packages such as ArcGIS

Click on the links to the left for more information on the specific projects.


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