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Modelling Adaptation?
Ian Burton calls for adaptation modelling to inform a new authoritative review quantifying economy-wide adaptation benefits. Published February 2007

Advanced Regional Prediction System
The aim of the Center for Analysis and Predictions of Storms (CAPS) in the USA is to demonstrate the practicability of storm-scale numerical weather prediction with an emphasis on deep convective storms. CAPS is making available a prototype regional forecast system appropriate for operational and research applications.

Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change in Multiple Regions and Sectors
The website synthesizes information on the sectors, systems, and groups studied, methods utilized, and key results of the 24 AIACC (Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change in Multiple Regions and Sectors) projects in the Americas, Africa and Asia.

Atmosphere-Ocean Model
Provides access to the computer programme enabling model simulations as well as further data and information files related to climate prediction.

Canadian climate impacts and scenarios
The Canadian Climate Impacts and Scenarios project provides a wide range of scenario data and advice. Intended for climate assessments and educational purposes.

CARBOAFRICA
The aim of the CARBOAFRICA network is to improve the quantification, understanding and prediction of the carbon cycle, and other greenhouse gas budgets, in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies
The Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology conducts research into technologies to capture, utilize, and store carbon dioxide from large stationary sources.

Climateprediction.net
Climateprediction.net is the largest experiment to try and produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century. You can download a climate model from this website that will run automatically as a background process on your computer. As the model runs, you can watch the weather patterns evolve. The results are returned to this site where you will be able to see a summary.

Coastal Typology Development
The global coastal zone typology enables the grouping of the world's coastal zone into clusters of discrete units based on both natural and socio-economic features and processes. The typology dataset can be downloaded.

Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period
Provides a foundation for the World Climate Research Program in cooperation with WMO to establish an integrated global observing system for the water cycle. Access to data sets, schedule of activities and publications and related links.

DECC 2050 Calculator Tool
The 2050 Calculator Tool from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change aims to help policymakers, the energy industry and the public understand how to move to a secure, low-carbon energy system over the period to 2050.

Ecosystem Informatics
Ecosystem Informatics has been developed to provide data, information and ecological modelling for forecasting changes in Earth's life support systems. The programme has been developed by NOAA's Satellite and Information Services, the Geophysical Data Center, and the University of Colorado's Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences.

Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic
The goal of Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA) is to facilitate the collection, preservation, exchange and use of Local and Traditional Knowledge research and community-based monitoring of the Arctic by providing data management and user support and to foster collaboration between local and international researchers.

FUND
The Climate Framework for Uncertainty, Negotiation and Distribution (FUND) is a so-called integrated assessment model of climate change. FUND was originally set-up to study the role of international capital transfers in climate policy, but it soon evolved into a test-bed for studying impacts of climate change in a dynamic context, and it is now often used to perform cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses of greenhouse gas emission reduction policies, to study equity of climate change and climate policy, and to support game-theoretic investigations into international environmental agreements.

Global Carbon Project
The aim of the Global Carbon Project is to develop a complete picture of the global carbon cycle, including both its biophysical and human dimensions together with the interactions and feedbacks between them. It publishes an annual update of carbon budget data.

Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment
Supporting a global network on mountain biodiversity research, the site details planned activities including database development and future workshops.

Globalis - interactive world map
Globalis is an interactive world atlas that can be used to plot country-level data on environment and development.

Grants and other funding opportunities
SciDev Net maintains an up-to-date list of funding opportunities in the area of science and development.

Grid Analysis and Display Software (GrADS)
GrADS is an interactive display tool used for the analysis and display of earth sciences data.

Historical hurricane tracks
An interactive mapping tool to search and display historical storm tracks and related data through entering local or regional coordinates. Access available to website for active storm information.

Impacts of Climate Change on World Food Supply
The results of a study of climate impacts on crop yields are available at this site and can be viewed through an interactive query interface.

Integrated Assessment Of Climate Change: Model Visualization and Analysis
Model Visualization and Analysis for Climate Change Integrated Assessment supports the community of researchers and policy analysts involved in modeling and assessing the impacts and policy implications of climate and global environmental change. The website provides access to data from climate change research, as well as citations and information related to these efforts. It also provides access to geospatial data relevant to climate change.

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission coordinates international scientific research on the world's oceans. The site contains details of current programmes, news and access to scientific expertise.

International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
The core mission of the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI), a unit of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is to enhance society's ability to understand, anticipate and manage the impacts of seasonal climate fluctuations, especially in developing countries. The IRI's current research locations include Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South and South East Asia.

IPPC models
The Climate Change Advisory Team of the Danish Energy Agency makes available a set of models for use over the Internet, duplicating the IPCC emissions - concentrations - temperature simulations. You can use these models to assess the effects of different emissions control scenarios.

MATerials Technologies for greenhouse gas Emission Reduction (MATTER) project
The MATTER project is developing an integrated energy and materials system for western Europe. Model input and output and well as information about the project can be viewed on this site.

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is an international work programme designed to meet the needs of decision makers and the public for scientific information concerning the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and options for responding to those changes.

Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment (MECCA)
Hosted by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the MECCA site provides simulations of the greenhouse future and impact assessments.

Monthly temperature analysis
Create a contour map or time series based on monthly temperature data from the Global Historic Climate Network and Monthly Climatic Data for the World courtesy of the National Climate Data Center in the United States.

NASA GISS surface temperature analysis
The NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies surface temperature analysis provides a measure of the changing global surface temperature for the period since 1880.

NatCarb
The NatCarb website presents background information and interactive maps on the process of storing carbon dioxide.

National Carbon Calculator
The Guardian's National Carbon Calculator allows you to set United Kinggdom policy on energy, transport and other sectors and measure the carbon emissions generated.

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
The Paleoclimatology Program's goal is to assist the world share data, software and information on past long-term climate variability.

Octave
GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations, that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It is available at no charge.

R-Project for Statistical Computing
R is free software, providing a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, and so on) and graphical techniques relevant to climate research.

Rainman Streamflow
Rainman contains rainfall data for 3800 locations and streamflow records for nearly 400 locations in Australia and the ability to analyze these data and preidct future variability, based on the ENSO phenomenon and sea surface temperatures.

Space Physics Interactive Data Resource (SPIDR)
A comprehensive collection of data made available by the Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division of the US National Geophysical Data Center. Data can be browsed and visualized on-line.

Twin2Go
The aim of Twin2Go is to draw policy-relevant research results on issues around adaptive water governance in the context of climate change and to make them transferable to other basins.

UK Climate Scenarios Gateway
Access to climate scenarios for the United Kingdom.

WaterDome
WaterDome was created for the World Summit on Environment And Development in 2002 by the ‘Hilltops to Oceans' initiative of UNEP's Global Programme of Action. The major goal of this event is to increase water awareness during the World Summit. The site contains news and background reports.

Weather Processor
The Weather Processor, developed by Purdue University, is a general purpose weather visualization tool for current, forecast and archived meteorological data.

Weather Shop
A range of weather instrumentation and software for amateurs and professionals can be found at the Weather Shop.

Autogenerated: 29 Aug 2010

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