Climate risk based on Novel and Disappearing Climates 2050 SRES A2

Climate risk data are used to identify climate stability or scope for climate-adaptation focused interventions. The recent datasets from Tabor et al. 2018 which assess climate change exposure using downscaled climate projections with the SRES A2 emissions scenario was selected for ranking climate risk, combining two measures of radically changing climates. Tabor highlight (a) the threat status of the climate, assigning high values where the late 20th century climates will cease to exist anywhere in the world and therefore this climate space is very threatened as it may be disappearing from the world; and (b) the distance from current climates, with high values indicating areas with novel climates not currently experienced anywhere in the world, and where there is high uncertainty on future species communities. Climate risk values are grouped by deciles whereby landscapes with moderate climate risk are deemed most appropriate for selection, in that there are some adaptation challenges that the LWP intervention may be able to tackle.

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Date ( Publication )
2018-11-26
Author
Conservation International - Karyn Tabor

Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose
Climate risk dataset at 0.25 degree generated for Landscapes, Wildlife and People project.
Credit
John W. Williams, Karyn Tabor. (2018). Novel and Disappearing Climates 2050 SRES A2 (Version 1) [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1559299
Author
Conservation International - Karyn Tabor

Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Keywords ( Place )
  • global
Keywords ( Theme )
  • climate ; temperature ; future ; models ; downscaled ; metrics
Keywords
  • Downloadable Data
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Environment description
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Supplemental Information
Support for this project was provided by Conservation International, the Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin, the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin, and the Environment Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. This research has been funded in part by the Walton Family Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and a gift from Betty and Gordon Moore.
Reference system identifier
EPSG / 4326 / 6.14(3.0.1)
Number of dimensions
2
Dimension name
Column
Dimension size
1440
Resolution
0.25  deg
Dimension name
Row
Dimension size
571
Resolution
0.25  deg
Cell geometry
Area
Transformation parameter availability
Yes
Checkpoint Availability
No
Point in Pixel
  • Center
Distribution format
  • Raster Dataset ( GeoTiff )

Metadata

File identifier
8dd62d82-afa0-4c34-8e83-a00d253a5a31 XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Date stamp
2019-04-10T15:27:57
Metadata standard name
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata standard version
2007
Point of contact
UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) - spatialanalysis@unep-wcmc.org ( Data Manager )
Author
Conservation International - Karyn Tabor

 
 

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Keywords

climate ; temperature ; future ; models ; downscaled ; metrics

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