Tribal Climate Change Guide

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is part of the Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project (TCCP). The TCCP is part of the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation (LF), is an independent, Indigenous-led, conservation 501(c)(3) nonprofit established on the Colville Indian Reservation in the traditional territory of the Nespelem Tribe in present-day north central Washington State. LF supports the restoration and cultivation of native Plant and Pollinator Relatives and the culturally respectful conservation of habitats and ecosystems which are climate resilient and adaptive. For more information about LF, visit: https://thepnwlf.org/. For more information about the Tribal Climate Change Project, visit: https://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/. If you would like to add information to this guide, please email kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com.

Climate Models, Climate Projections, and Uncertainty: A Primer for Southeast Alaska

Type

Literature

Publication

Little, Jeremy S., 2016, Climate Models, Climate Projections, and Uncertainty: A Primer for Southeast Alaska. Alaska Climate Science Center and US Geological Survey.

Year Published

2016

Organization

Alaska Climate Science Center, USGS

Description

The future climate of a place is a product of the natural seasonal and annual climate, the natural climatic variability from year to year and decade to decade, and the factors that force changes in the long-term climate trends. Developing scenarios of plausible future climate at regional to local scales requires the use of global climate models (GCMs) because the processes that drive local climate range in scale from planetary to local.” This primer provides a crash course in the scope and necessity of climate models in Southeast Alaska, while presenting the limitations and uncertainties that come with the current modeling system.

Geography

Alaska

Website

http://www.seakfhp.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Tongass_PRimer.pdf

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is supported through partnerships between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Tribal Program.
Questions about this Guide should be directed to kathy@uoregon.edu.