Geoscience Policy Monthly Review
december 2013

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USGS develops county-scale temperature and precipitation maps

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently released a new website featuring maps and summaries of historical and projected temperatures and rainfall for counties inside the contiguous United States. The effort is a collaborative project with the College of Earth, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. The maps and summaries are based 33 climate models used in the 5th Climate Model Intercomparison Project and the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report. The website provides useful tools to characterize climate change through climographs, histograms, and tables that summarize changes in temperature and precipitation from a series spanning from 1950-2099.

Source: USGS