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Description: This report describes socioeconomic storylines and key scenario elements for California that are broadly consistent with the global “A2” and “B1” storylines in the 2000 Special Report on Emissions Scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, including qualitative socioeconomic context as well as quantitative projections of key variables such as population, urbanization patterns, economic growth, and electricity prices.
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Subject: California -- Population -- Forecasting, California -- Social conditions, California -- Economic conditions -- Forecasting, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Forecasting, California -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: Sanstad, Alan H., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency, California Climate Change Center
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: The frequency of Santa Ana wind events is investigated within a high-resolution downscaling of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ERA-40 reanalysis data to 6-kilometer resolution over Southern California.
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Subject: Climatic changes -- California, Southern, Santa Ana winds, Fire weather -- California, Southern
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Energy Commission, Hughes, Mimi, Hall, Alexander Dean, Kim, Jinwon, California Climate Change Center , California Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: A study of the California Sierra snowpack has been conducted using snow station observations and reanalysis surface temperature data. First-of-the-month snow water equivalent measurements were combined from two data sets to provide sufficient data from 1930 to 2007.
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Subject: Snow -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Forecasting, Snow -- California -- Forecasting, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Forecasting, California -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Energy Commission, Kapnick, Sarah, Hall, Alexander Dean, California Environmental Protection Agency, California Climate Change Center
Language: English
Coverage: Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Format: Government Documents
Description: This study analyzed the effects of climate and emissions-related perturbations on ozone air quality in Southern California.
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Subject: Photochemical smog -- California, Southern -- Forecasting, Air -- Pollution -- California, Southern -- Forecasting, Ozone -- Environmental aspects -- California, Southern -- Forecasting, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California, Southern -- Forecasting, California, Southern -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: Millstein, Dev E., Harley, Robert A., California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency. Air Resources Board, California Climate Change Center
Language: English
Coverage: California, Southern
Format: Government Documents
Description: An increase in the rate of sea level rise is one of the primary impacts of projected global climate change. To assess potential inundation associated with a continued acceleration of sea level rise, the highest resolution elevation data available were assembled from various sources and mosaicked to cover the land surfaces of the San Francisco Bay region.
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Subject: Sea level -- Climatic factors -- California -- San Francisco Bay -- Forecasting, Coast changes -- Climatic factors -- California -- San Francisco Bay -- Forecasting, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Forecasting, San Francisco Bay (Calif.) -- Climatic factors -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Energy Commission, Knowles, Noah, Geological Survey (U.S.), California Environmental Protection Agency, California Climate Change Center
Language: English
Coverage: San Francisco Bay (Calif.)
Format: Government Documents
Description: Over the past century, sea level has risen nearly eight inches along the California coast, and general circulation model scenarios suggest very substantial increases in sea level as a significant impact of climate change over the coming century. This study includes a detailed analysis of the current population, infrastructure, and property at risk from projected sea-level rise if no actions are taken to protect the coast.
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Subject: Sea level -- Climatic factors -- California -- Forecasting, Sea level -- Climatic factors -- Economic aspects -- California -- Pacific Coast, Coast changes -- Climatic factors -- California -- Forecasting, Coast changes -- Climatic factors -- Economic aspects -- California -- Pacific Coast, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Forecasting, Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- California -- Pacific Coast, Floods -- Climatic factors -- Economic aspects -- California -- Pacific Coast, California -- Climatic factors -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting, California -- Climatic factors -- Economic aspects -- Forecasting, Pacific Coast (Calif.) -- Climatic factors -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting, Pacific Coast (Calif.) -- Climatic factors -- Economic aspects
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: Heberger, Matthew, California. Department of Transportation, California. Metropolitan Transportation Commission, California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency, California Ocean Protection Council, California Climate Change Center
Language: English
Coverage: Pacific Coast (Calif.)
Format: Government Documents
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Subject: Biotic communities -- California, Biodiversity -- California, Carbon sequestration -- California, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Forecasting, Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- California -- Forecasting, California -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting, California Energy Commission, Climate change mitigation.
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , Shaw, M. Rebecca, California Energy Commission, Nature Conservancy of California, California Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: This study synthesized existing research to characterize current understanding of the direct impacts of extreme events across sectors, as well as the interactions between sectors as they are affected by extreme events. It also produced new projections of changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme events in the future across climate models, emissions scenarios, and downscaling methods for producing regional climate information, for each California county.
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Subject: Climatic extremes -- California -- Forecasting, Heat waves (Meteorology) -- California -- Forecasting, Frost -- California -- Forecasting, Floods -- California -- Forecasting, Drought forecasting -- California, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Forecasting, California -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , Mastrandrea, Michael D, California Energy Commission, Stanford University. Woods Institute for the Environment, California Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: This report explores what the San Diego region will be like in the year 2050 if current trends continue. Focusing on interrelated issues of climate change, sea-level rise, population growth, land use, water, energy, public health, wildfires, biodiversity, and habitat, the report looks at the potential impacts of a changing climate by 2050, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
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Subject: San Diego (Calif.) -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting, Electric power consumption -- California -- San Diego -- Forecasting, Public health -- California -- San Diego -- Forecasting, Sea level -- California -- San Diego -- Forecasting, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Diego -- Forecasting
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Coverage: San Diego (Calif.)
Format: Government Documents
Date: 2009 March
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Subject: Runoff., Precipitation (Meteorology), Climatic changes.
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: This study used numerical experiments to investigate two important concerns in simulating the cold season snowpack: the impact the alterations of snow albedo due to anthropogenic aerosol deposition on snowpack and the treatment of detailed snow physics using a multi-layer snow model.
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Subject: Albedo -- Effect of human beings on -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Mathematical models, Albedo -- Climatic factors -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Mathematical models, Snow -- Effect of human beings on -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Mathematical models, Snow -- Climatic factors -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Mathematical models, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Forecasting, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , Waliser, Duane E., Kim, John, Vasic, R., Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.), University of California, Los Angeles, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (U.S.), California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Coverage: Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Format: Government Documents
Description: This paper provides an initial exploration of this hypothesis through first identifying the dominant daily circulation patterns over North America using an objective cluster analysis on ERA-40 reanalysis of 500 millibar (mb), 700 mb, and 850 mb geopotential height and temperature fields. Next, we evaluate the extent to which these upper-air patterns can be correlated with surface-level oppressive air mass events associated with elevated levels of heatrelated mortality in major California urban centers.
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Subject: Air masses, Atmospheric circulation, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Forecasting, Heat -- Physiological effect, Human beings -- Effect of temperature on
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , Sheridan, Scott Christopher, Hayhoe, Katharine, Kalkstein, Laurence S, California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency. Air Resources Board
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: This paper provides a summary of research to estimate the household price elasticities for natural gas, electricity, and water in California.
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Subject: Housing -- Energy consumption -- Economic aspects -- California, Housing -- Energy conservation -- Economic aspects -- California, Residential water consumption -- Economic aspects -- California, Elasticity (Economics) -- California
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , California Environmental Protection Agency, California Energy Commission, Dale, Larry L.
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: Climate change could substantially alter the width of beaches in Southern California. Climatedriven sea level rise will have at least two important impacts on beaches: (1) higher sea level will cause all beaches to become more narrow, all things being held constant, and (2) sea level rise may affect patterns of beach erosion and accretion when severe storms combine with higher high tides. To understand the potential economic impacts of these two outcomes, this study examined the physical and economic effects of permanent beach loss caused by inundation due to sea level rise of one meter and of erosion and accretion caused by a single, extremely stormy year (using a model of beach change based on the wave climate conditions of the El Niño year of 1982/1983.)
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Subject: Coast changes -- Economic aspects -- California, Southern -- Forecasting, Sea level -- Economic aspects -- California, Southern -- Forecasting, Beach erosion -- Economic aspects -- California, Southern -- Forecasting, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California, Southern -- Forecasting, California, Southern -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , Pendleton, Linwood H., California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
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Subject: Heat, Mortality., Temperature.
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: For this study, daily data were collected for mortality and weather in seven California counties known to be affected by the July 2006 heat wave. The association between apparent temperature and daily mortality was assessed using a Poisson regression model and combined across counties in a meta-analysis.This multi-county analysis provides additional evidence that the risk of mortality increases with prolonged exposure to high apparent temperatures, as is common during a heat wave.
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Subject: Heat waves (Meteorology) -- California, High temperatures -- California, Heat -- Physiological effect -- California
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , Ostro, Bart D., California Environmental Protection Agency, California Energy Commission, California Energy Commission. Public Interest Energy Research
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
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Subject: Hospital utilization -- California, Heat -- Physiological effect -- California, Temperature.
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , California Environmental Protection Agency, California Energy Commission, Green, Rochelle
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: This literature review explores disparities in the impacts of climate change and the abilities of different groups to adapt to it. Further, it investigates the costs and benefits of climate change mitigation strategies—some of which have been specified in the Scoping Plan for the implementation of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32). Finally, knowledge gaps and future research questions are identified.
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Subject: Environmental justice -- California, Environmental health -- California, Climatic changes -- Health aspects -- California, Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- California, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , California Environmental Protection Agency, California Energy Commission, Shonkoff, Seth B.
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
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Subject: Global warming, Fruit., Climate change mitigation.
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
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Subject: Agriculture -- California, Floods -- California, Frost -- California, Heat waves (Meteorology) -- California, Crops and climate -- Economic aspects -- California
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , Lobell, David (David Brian), Torney, Angela, Field, Christopher B., California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
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Subject: Field crops -- California -- Central Valley (Valley), Crop yields -- California -- Central Valley (Valley) -- Forecasting, Agriculture -- California -- Central Valley (Valley) -- Forecasting, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Central Valley (Valley) -- Forecasting, Central Valley (Calif. : Valley) -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , De Gryze, Steven, Lee, Juhwan, Six, Johan, California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Coverage: California--Central Valley
Format: Government Documents
Description: This research measured the economic effects of climate-related yield change in California crops. The overall conclusion from model runs is that, while the effect of climate change is manifest through yield changes, after economic adaptation, the results on irrigated crop production are predominately shown in economic terms and changes in aggregate land and water use.
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Subject: Crop yields -- Economic aspects -- California -- Forecasting, Crop yields -- Economic aspects -- California -- Mathematical models, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Forecasting, California -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , Howitt, Richard E., Medellín-Azuara, Josué., MacEwan, Duncan., California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: Using county-level data from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Census of Agriculture, this study evaluates the effect of weather and climate on agricultural profits in the State of California. The approach is to estimate revenue less production cost per acre as a function of land characteristics, weather realizations, and climate.
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Subject: Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- California -- Forecasting, Crops and climate -- California -- Forecasting, California -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting, Agriculture -- California -- Forecasting, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , Costello, Christopher J., Deschênes, Olivier., Kolstad, Charles D., California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: This interdisciplinary document is intended to build awareness about the urgent need to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies to climate change for specific agricultural regions.
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Subject: Crops and climate -- California -- Yolo County -- Forecasting, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Yolo County -- Forecasting, Agriculture -- California -- Yolo County -- Forecasting, Greenhouse gas mitigation -- California -- Yolo County, Water-supply, Agricultural -- California -- Yolo County, Nitrogen fertilizers -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Yolo County, Yolo County (Calif.) -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , Jackson, Louise E., California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Coverage: Yolo County (Calif.)
Format: Government Documents
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Subject: Emissions trading, Climatic changes.
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: A study modeled future wildfires considering different climate and development scenarios. Results show a significant increase in wildfires, especially under higher emissions (SRES A2) with statewide increases ranging from 57% to 169% by 2085. The spatial patterns of increased fire occurrence vary based on the speed of vegetation shifts, with coastal areas and Northern California showing higher increases in fire area burned.
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Subject: Wildfires--Forecasting, Biotic communities, Hydrology, Climate changes, California--Environmental conditions--Forecasting
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: Climate change will have profound effects on the distribution, function, and productivity of California’s forests. To provide managers with the means to anticipate likely forest responses to climate change, we initiated the development of a climate-sensitive growth and yield model for the mixed conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada (WS CalClim 1.0). WS CalClim 1.0 was built using the logic and architecture of the WESSIN variant (WS) of the Forest Vegetation Simulator. Our initial focus was on designing and testing a model of ponderosa pine productivity.
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Subject: Ponderosa pine -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Growth -- Mathematical models, Trees -- Mortality -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Mathematical models, Forest management -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Forests and forestry -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Forecasting, California -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , Battles, John (John J.), California Environmental Protection Agency., California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Coverage: Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Format: Government Documents
Description: We model the interaction of climate‐dependent wildfire risk and one spatially explicit population growth scenario in California to generate measures of changes in wildfire risk to residential property under different scenarios for future climate.
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Subject: Wildfire forcasting -- California, Fire risk assessment -- California -- Forecasting, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Forecasting
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , Bryant, Benjamin, Westerling, Anthony, California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: This paper explores water management adaptation in California to warm-dry and warm-only climate warming scenarios from the updated scenarios for the California Climate Change Scenarios Assessment 2008.
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Subject: Water resources development -- California -- Forecasting, Water-supply -- California -- Forecasting, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Forecasting, California -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , Medellín-Azuara, Josué, California Environmental Protection Agency, California Energy Commission
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: This paper explores water management adaptation in California to warm-dry and warm-only climate warming scenarios from the updated scenarios for the California Climate Change Scenarios Assessment 2008.
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Subject: Water resources development -- California -- Forecasting, Water-supply -- California -- Forecasting, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Forecasting, California -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting, Water demand management., Water-supply--Management.
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center , Medellín-Azuara, Josué, California Environmental Protection Agency, California Energy Commission
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
Description: Simulation models are used here to weigh competing influences that might either increase or diminish future floods. Future characteristics of major storms, in particular pineapple express or atmospheric river storms, by global climate models indicated changes mostly at the extremes. Likewise, although the average intensity of storms was not projected to increase much in most climate models, occasional much-larger-than-historical-range storm intensities were simulated.
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Subject: California -- Environmental conditions -- Forecasting, Floods -- California -- Forecasting, Hydrological forecasting -- California, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- Forecasting, Floods.
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Energy Commission, California Environmental Protection Agency, Dettinger, M.D., California Climate Change Center
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
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Subject: Electric utilities
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
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Subject: Electric utilities
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
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Subject: Electric utilities
Group: Natural Resources Agency
Creator: California Climate Change Center
Language: English
Coverage: California
Format: Government Documents
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