Local Predictions of Impacts

 

1. The Effects of Climate Change on Florida’s Ocean and Coastal Resources. Florida Oceans and Coastal Council, June 2009

 

Summary: The Effects of Climate Change on Florida’s Ocean and Coastal Resources provides important information for legislators, policymakers, governmental agencies, and members of the public who are working to address, or who are interested in, issues related to climate change in Florida. The Council anticipates that the report will be updated periodically, and has recommended a number of research priorities for ocean and coastal research to improve levels of certainty about how climate change will affect Florida.

Other supplemental resources for local predictions of impacts

 

1. A Weather and Climate Enterprise Strategic Implementation Plan for Generating and Communicating Forecast Uncertainty Information. American Meteorological Society Commission on the Weather and Climate Enterprise Board on Enterprise Communication, Draft January 2010 (PDF 1.6MB)

 

Summary: This draft document presents a strategic plan to address uncertainty for weather and climate. This plan defines a vision, strategic goals, roles and responsibilities, an implementation roadmap, and monitoring strategy to guide the weather and climate enterprise toward routinely providing the nation with comprehensive, skillful, and reliable information about the uncertainty of weather, water and climate forecasts.

 

2. Use of Science in Gulf of Mexico Decision Making Involving Climate Change. EPA Cooperative Agreement: R-83023601-0, December 2007 (PDF 2.1MB

 

Summary: This research was undertaken to provide information on how Gulf of Mexico stakeholder groups can be more effectively engaged in making decisions to address potential climate change impacts. In addition, the project was designed to engage “relevant stakeholder communities” in the research process.