Climate Change
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U.S. Department of the Interior uses
ESRI's ArcGIS Explorer globe to show increases in surface temperatures
around the world.
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You can study climate change using GIS as an integrative tool for data management and scientific analysis. GIS allows temporal climate data to be visualized, contrasted, and forecasted. Quantitative and predictive capabilities allow you to gain in-depth understanding of the correlations that human and natural factors are having on earth's climate.
Who Is Using GIS to Study Climate Change?
- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses GIS to study global climate change such as sea-level rise.
- National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) serves free climate change projections and a community portal for GIS Climate Change Scenarios.
- National Hurricane Center (NHC) tracks tropical storms, hurricanes, and cyclones and publishes real-time activity on the center's GIS-enabled Web site.
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) monitors the world's weather activity.
- National Weather Service provides weather datasets via a data portal that you can import into your projects.
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collects and analyzes data about drought, flood, and fire.
Success Stories
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