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Climate Change Impacts on Water Availability in Alaska

A new report on statewide hydrology is now available, based on a study by The Wilderness Society in conjunction with SNAP. To download the report, look under Reports in the menu on the left... read more »
Published: Jul 9 2009
 

Publications

Global Climate Model Performance over Alaska and Greenland

Walsh, J. et al. 2008. Journal of Climate. v. 21 pp. 6156-6174. The performance of a set of 15 global climate models used in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project is evaluated for Alaska and Greenland, and compared with the performance over broader... read more »
Formats: Publication
Created:  Mar 8, 2009

Sensitivity of Simulated Boreal Fire Dynamics to Uncertainties in Climate Drivers

This paper uses a transient landscape-level model of vegetation dynamics, Alaskan Frame-based Ecosystem Code (ALFRESCO), to evaluate the influence of different driving datasets of climate on simulation results. The results of this study identify the... read more »
Regions: Interior
Formats: Publication
Created:  Jun 8, 2009