NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) – Hosted by CIESIN at Columbia University

Climate Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation

Data Sets (2 of 40) – View All

Effects of Climate Change on Global Food Production from SRES Emissions and Socioeconomic Scenarios, v1 (1970 – 2080)

Climate Effects on Food Supply

To provide an assessment of potential climate change impacts on world crop production.

Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) Observed Climate Change Impacts, v1 (1970 – 2004)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

To provide a database with observed responses to climate change for multidisciplinary studies.

Map Gallery (4 of 23) – View All

Effects of Climate Change on Global Food Production from SRES Emissions and Socioeconomic Scenarios, v1 (1970 – 2080)

Map: Effects of Climate Change on Global Food Production from SRES Emissions and Socioeconomic Scenarios
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  • WMS Layers (1)

National and Regional Data Set by Source Category, v2.86 (1850 – 2005)

Map: National and Regional Data Set by Source Category
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Synthetic Assessment of Global Distribution of Vulnerability to Climate Change, v1 (2005, 2050, 2100)

Map: Synthetic Assessment of Global Distribution of Vulnerability to Climate Change
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Urban-Rural Population Estimates, v1 (2000)

Map: Urban-Rural Population Estimates
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Featured Data Uses (2 of 3) – View All

Managing Urban Growth and Flood Risk in a Changing Climate/South and Southeast Asia

World Development Report 2010

The SEDAC data set Low-elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) is the basis for a set of national-level indicators of the total area and population in the LECZ circa 2000. Map 2.2 (page 94), Chapter 2 of the World Development Report 2010, Managing Urban Growth and Flood Risk in a Changing Climate in South and Southeast Asia.  

Geo Quiz

PRI’s The World

The report on linkages between climate and migration, In Search of Shelter, is featured in a daily geography quiz of the public radio program, PRI’s The World.