Downscaling Scenarios of Climate Change Project to Map Entire Appalachian LCC Region
A DOI Southeast Climate Science Center funded project will be evaluating the latest generation of global climate models to generate scenarios of future change to climate, hydrology, and vegetation for the Southeastern U.S. as well as the entire range of the Appalachian LCC.
The downscaled climate scenario maps will look similar to maps of daily surface meteorology such as minimum relative humidity shown here.
A wide range of planning activities, scientific research, and decision support tools now require some representation of future climate, hydrology, and vegetation. But the Mid-Atlantic and mountainous region of the Appalachians is not well modeled in global climate models. By using the best available models to date and discerning likely climate scenarios within the region, deliverables from this project will provide resource managers with a greater understanding of likely future changes to climate and associated impacts in the Appalachians.
