PubTalk 3/2014 — Preparing for California Climate Change

--Climatologists Look Back and Peer Forward

Dan Cayan, USGS Climate Change Researcher

• Climatologists are using observational history, climate and earth system physics and computer modeling to develop plausible scenarios of California's changing climate.
• How much will California's climate warm in future decades, and what are the greatest vulnerabilities to climate change?
• Experts are investigating how climate change might impact resources that are crucial to the state, including the Sierra Nevada snowpack, California coastal sea levels and the San Francisco Bay/Delta.