Wednesday, June 4, 2014

ClimateCentral

Interactive Web tools: Western wildfire, storm and sewage, heat across the nation, and sea level rise/coastal flooding. Can be used as a point of reference.
Maps are a "rough cut" as there are many factors: tidal/storm surge, rainfall.
Social vulnerability layer? Used by NOAA to measure community ability to respond to flood.
Property value: based on 2008/9 #s (really?)
Forecasting method: they recognize there is much current research on modeling. Assuming storm trends continue, estimate risk as a baseline analysis.
Can choose different models from different sources.
Provides peer reviewed science. Have students read those docs and explore the researchers.
Federal data sets, property and infrastructure to analyze risk.
Georgetown climate change has a clearinghouse of info.

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