Climate Impacts & Resilience

Evaluating the impact of climate and weather events and designing solutions for reducing the societal impact of climate change are two of the grand challenges of today. Accelerating changes in the climate system is leading to increased heat, flooding, fires, drought and other changes that our social and built environments have not experienced and are not designed for.

In Climate & Space, interdisciplinary research includes using models and remote sensing to analyze the impact of climate and weather events on society, development of techniques to evaluate the resilience of environmental systems to extreme events and interdisciplinary teams that work with communities to help design equitable adaptation and mitigation plans.

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National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)