Climate Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation

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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.

Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) Observed Climate Change Impacts, v2.01 (2007 – 2014)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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

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UHI Summer Nighttime Urban-Rural Temperature Difference (2013)

Map: UHI Summer Nighttime Urban-Rural Temperature Difference (2013)
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UHI Average Summer Nighttime Minimum Surface Temperature (2013)

Map: UHI Average Summer Nighttime Minimum Surface Temperature (2013)
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UHI Summer Daytime Urban-Rural Temperature Difference (2013)

Map: UHI Summer Daytime Urban-Rural Temperature Difference (2013)
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UHI Average Summer Daytime Maximum Surface Temperature (2013)

Map: UHI Average Summer Daytime Maximum Surface Temperature (2013)
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Using Satellites to Better Understand Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Geophysical Research Letters

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the primary greenhouse gas responsible for warming the planet.  While the global distribution of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is well known, tracking the emissions of CO2 to their sources is a challenge, especially over large urban areas.  One approach uses the NASA instrument Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT). Here scientists explore how carbon monoxide (CO) emission measurements from MOPITT can complement existing satellite CO2 measurements in megacities delineated by SEDAC’s Gridded Population of the World, to provide improved spatial and temporal understanding of CO2 emissions.

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.