Climate Primer for Water Availability Assessments

A project of the National Center for Atmospheric Research

• Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Climate Primer Motivation: Empathy Interviews
• Chapter 2: Climate and Water Availability Assessments
  • 2.1 Water-Availability Assessments
  • 2.2 What is needed for science and research support
• Chapter 3: Characterize baseline quantities of interest, uncertainties
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Observational datasets and their uncertainties
• Chapter 4: Understanding GCM climate change modeling and attributes, strengths, limitations
  • Chapter 4 Key Takeaways
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Goals of the IPCC, CMIPs, NCA
  • 4.3 What climate projections and IPCC climate-change scenarios mean and their assumptions
  • 4.4 Earth-system climate modeling – current strengths and abilities
  • 4.5 Earth system climate modeling – ongoing challenges
  • Ch4 References
• Chapter 5: Baseline natural variability and attribution of observed changes
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Climate variability
  • 5.3 Detection and Attribution
  • 5.4 Observed Climate Impacts
• Chapter 6: Place-Based Climate Projections
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Approaches to downscaling
  • 6.3 References
• Chapter 7: Uncertainty
  • 7.1 Sources of Uncertainty
  • 7.2 Ensembles
  • 7.3 Uncertainty Quantification
• Chapter 8: Example Cases
  • Example Case 1: Delaware River Basin Water System Vulnerabilities under Climate Change
  • Example Case 2: Compound Flooding Impacts due to Tropical Cyclones under Climate Change
  • Example Case 3
• Chapter 9: Walk-thru Recipes
  • Recipe 1: Preparing Hydro-climate Inputs for Climate Change in Water Resource Planning
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  • Introduction to Climate Models
  • Earth-system climate modeling – historical perspective
  • GCM future climate datasets
• Additional Resources
• Glossary
• Acknowledgements