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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
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Reports for Boreal ALFRESCO

As Boreal ALFRESCO finishes modeling specific areas in Alaska, reports will be posted here to download. These reports focus on particular domains within the state and present maps, data, and other interpretations of model output. Statewide... read more »
Topics: Ecological Model
Regions: Far North, Interior, Southcentral, Southeast, Southwest
Formats: Report
Created:  Oct 22, 2008
Updated: Oct 30, 2009

Climate Change Summary Reports

The climate summary reports for each region describe potential future temperature and precipitation compared to historical values, a 1961-1990 climatology. Bureau of Land... read more »
Topics: Climate
Regions: Far North, Interior, Southcentral, Southeast, Southwest
Formats: Report
Created:  Jan 23, 2009
Updated: Oct 30, 2009

Fact sheets and short documents

These fact sheets and summary reports provide an overview of various aspects of SNAP's work, including model derivation, uncertainty analysis, and statewide climate... read more »
Topics: Climate
Regions: Far North, Interior, South central, Southeast, Southwest
Formats: Report
Created:  Jun 5, 2009
Updated: Jul 21, 2009

The GIPL-1 Permafrost Dynamics Model

The Geophysical Institute Permafrost Lab (GIPL) model was developed specifically to assess the effect of a changing climate on permafrost. The GIPL 1.0 model is a quasi-transitional, spatially distributed, equilibrium model for calculating the active... read more »
Topics: Hydrology, permafrost
Regions: statewide
Formats: Report
Created:  Jun 15, 2009

Climate Change Impacts on Water Availability in Alaska

Increases in temperature and changes in precipitation have had profound effects on regional hydrology, including shrinking wetlands, glacier and polar sea ice recession, permafrost melting, and an increase in fire frequency and intensity across the... read more »
Topics: Ecosystem Change, Hydrology
Regions: statewide
Formats: Report
Created:  Jul 9, 2009
Updated: Sep 17, 2009

Validating SNAP Climate Models

How useful are climate models that project as far as a century into the future? The answer to this question depends on the needs of the model user. In general, good climate model outputs simulate both the predictable and the unpredictable nature of... read more »
Topics: Modeling
Regions: Far North, Interior, South central, Southeast, Southwest, statewide
Formats: Report
Created:  Jul 21, 2009
Updated: Jul 22, 2009
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