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Data and Tools

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Climate Inspector

The Climate Inspector is an interactive web application which expands GIS mapping and graphing capabilities to visualize possible temperature and precipitation changes throughout the 21st century.

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Extreme Heat Climate Inspector

Extreme Heat Climate Inspector is an interactive web application to visualize possible changes in extreme heat in the future.

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Climate Change Scenarios

Climate Change Scenarios GIS portal serves a large community of GIS users. Global and downscaled climate change projections from the Community Climate System Model (CCSM4) can be downloaded in a common GIS format.

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