Weather, Climate, and Health: Investigating Extreme Heat

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In this exercise you will work with the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) model output for future global temperature. You will map three RCPs: A high emissions scenario – RCP 8.5; a middle of the road emissions scenario – RCP 6.0; and a low emissions scenario – RCP 4.5.

Technical skills you will learn:

  • Working with multidimensional data.
  • Learning about symbology.
  • Working with raster datasets.
  • Creating a final map product.

This exercise was developed for the Weather, Climate, and Health Workshop  that took place the summer of  2013.

Exercise, Maps, and data (2.81 GB)
Description

Note: this exercise was developed using Esri ArcGIS 10.3.  Some steps may a bit different in later versions of the software.

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Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the US Food System: Exploring Drought Over Time

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In this exercise you will be working with global climate model output from the Community Earth System Model (CESM) in order to map possible future precipitation change by the middle of the 21st century as well as future drought. 

Technical skills you will learn:

  • Navigating the ArcMap interface.
  • Working with multidimensional data.
  • Working with the Time Slider. 
  • Exporting an animation of future drought.

This exercise was developed for the BRIGHTE Workshop : Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the US Food System that took place the summer of 2016.

Exercise (1.65 MB)
Maps and Data (400 MB)
Description

Note: this exercise was developed using Esri ArcGIS 10.4.  Some steps may a bit different in later versions of the software.

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