Our results indicate the existence of the Clausius-Clapeyron scaling at regional scales where per degree centigrade rise in surface temperature will lead to a 7.4% increase in precipitation from extremes. The future temperature response will be partly regulated by changes in snow hydrology over the regions that historically receive a major portion of cold season precipitation in the form of snow. Significant warming will likely intensify the regional hydrological cycle through the acceleration of the historical trends in cold, warm and wet extremes. will reach amoreÂ Â» new climate norm well before mid 21st century regardless of the magnitudes of regional warming. Should emissions continue to rise, surface temperatures in every region within the U.S. All model integrations span 41 years in the historical period (1965 â€“ 2005) and 41 years in the near- term future period (2010 â€“ 2050) under Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 and cover a domain that includes the contiguous U.S. using a regional climate model (RegCM4) that dynamically downscales 11 Global Climate Models from the 5th phase of Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project at 18km horizontal grid spacing. We present high-resolution near- term ensemble projections of hydro- climatic changes over the contiguous U.S. High-resolution ensemble projections of near- term regional climate over the continental United StatesĪshfaq, Moetasim Rastogi, Deeksha Mei, Rui. The project identified potential climate change impacts on agency operations, assets, and long- term plannin. The Climate Risk Reduction Project assessed how climate change may affect Sound Transit commuter rail, light rail, and express bus : services. Sound transit climate risk reduction project.ĭOT National Transportation Integrated Search ? 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. montana may increase its distribution particularly in the Northeast with climate change and may decrease in other areas. We examined how the potential distribution of this species will be affected by changing climate, and the management implications associated with these changes. We created habitat suitability maps for Pueraria montana (kudzu) under current climatic conditions and potential average conditions up to 30 years in the future. These fine scale projections, along with new species distribution modeling techniques to forecast the potential extent of invasive species, can provide useful information to aide conservation and invasive species management efforts. We used existing long term climate datasets for the US to project potential climate change into the future at a finer spatial and temporal resolution than the climate change scenarios generally available. Near term climate projections for invasive species distributionsĬlimate change and invasive species pose important conservation issues separately, and should be examined together.

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