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  • Global Resources
  • Global CMIP3 1/2-deg statistically- downscaled climate projections
  • Climate Wizard - global historical and GCM-projected (downscaled) temperature and precipitation
  • HydroDesktop (from CUAHSI team) - demo video
  • Hydroseek search engine - hydro.data.
  • NOAA State of the Climate 2009
  • UK Royal Society Guide to climate change science.
  • CORDEX - Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment
  • IPCC Technical  Paper VI on Climate Change and Water (2008)
  • 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  • National Academies Press: Global Change and Extreme Hydrology: Testing the Conventional Wisdom
  • Changes in the Global Water Cycle (by D. Lettenmaier, 2009)
  • The World's Water (Gleick et al)
  • Drought under Global Warming - A Review by Aiguo Dai of UCAR
  • ACQWA
  • Climate Change and Navigation (PIANC)
  • The economics of climate change: The Stern Review" (2006).
  • GEWEX: Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
  • Effects of global warming on the water cycle and precipitation - Special issue of Environmental Research Letters.
  • Glossary of Water Resources Terms
  • CUAHSI's Hydrologic Information System
  • Global River Discharge Database (RivDIS v1.1)
  • PROMISE: Predictability and variability of monsoons, and the agricultural and hydrological impacts of climate change
  • Intenational Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)
  • PRECIS model for worldwide high-res dynamical downscaling
  • RealClimate blog
  • Climate Central
  • Water Scarcity & Climate Change: Growing Risks for Businesses and Investors - report of the Pacific Institute and Ceres (2-26-09)
  • Atmospheric rivers publications list
  • www.riversnetwork.org
  • Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study
  • Sea Level Rise:
  • * Book "Sea-Level Rise and Variability" - see review in EOS 2011
  • * Sea-Level Rise in U.S. West Coast - See Bromirski et al paper's review in EOS 2011
  • Literature Searches: 
  • Scitopia.org
  • Bibliography of Water and Climate (by the Pacific Institute)
  • Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (by Ecoadapt and Island Press)
  • References on "non-stationarity" (IAHS)
  • Some Book Reviews
  • South America
  • Cenarios Regionais de Alteracoes Climaticas (CREAS)
  • CLARIS: Europe-South America Network for Climate Change Assessment and Impact Studies
  • R-Hydronet: Regional hydrometeo- rological data network for South and Central America and the Caribbean.
  • Africa
  • AMMA: African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses
  • IMPETUS Project
  • Asia
  • Australia & Oceania
  • Australian Gov. Dep. Climate Change
  • Europe
  • CECILIA (Central and Eastern Europe Climate Change Impact and Vulnerability Assessment)
  • CLARIS: Europe-South America Network for Climate Change Assessment and Impact Studies
  • CLAVIER (CLimate ChAnge and Variability: Impact on Central and Eastern EuRope
  • Climate Assessment and Dataset
  • Climate Change impacts in Europe - article in Geophysical Research Letters.
  • CRANIUM: Climate change Risk Assessment: New Impact and Uncertainty Methods
  • DEMETER: Development of a European Multimodel Ensemble system for seasonal to inTERannual prediction
  • ECA&D: European Climate Assessment & Dataset
  • EMULATE: European and North Atlantic daily to MULtidecadal climATE variability
  • ENSEMBLES Project - EU sponsored successor to PRUDENCE
  • PRUDENCE Project - Climate and streamflow predictions for Europe
  • European Environment Agency Climate Change Page
  • MICE: Modeling the Impact of Climate Extremes
  • PREDICATE: Mechanisms and Predictability of Decadal Fluctuations in Atlantic-European Climate
  • SafeCoast: Risk of Sea Level Rise in the North Sea
  • STARDEX: Statistical and Regional Dynamical Downscaling of Extremes for European Regions
  • U.K. Climate Impacts Programme
  • U.K. Climate Projections - maps
  • WISE: Water Information System for Europe
 
  • North America
  • CMIP3 1/8-deg statistically- downscaled climate projections for the conterminous U.S. and parts of Canada and Mexico
  • North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP)US Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments
  • Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium based in British Columbia, Canada
  • MRED - Multi-RCM Ensemble Downscaling of Global Seasonal Forecasts
  • PRISM climatology
  • United States
  • US Bureau of Reclamation (April 2011): Report on climate change and water resources in the West
  • US National Research Council (2011) America's Climate Choices report
  • US National Research Council (2011) National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces report
  • Projected water impacts in major US cities ("Thirsty for Answers" NRDC report, 2011)
  • US Federal Report (2-2-09): Climate Change and Water Resources Management: A Federal Perspective
  • Climate Change Indicators in US (2010).
  • Global Climate Change Impacts in the US (2009).
  • Congressional Budget Office report Potential Impacts of Climate Change in the United States (May 2009).
  • National Academy of Sciences Understanding the Earth's Deep Past: Lessons for our Climate Future
  • US Bureau of Reclamation (Sept 2009): Literature synthesis on climate change implications for Reclamation's water resources.
  • Regional impacts of climate change in four U.S. regions (report of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, released 12-4-07).
  • Energy Demands on Water Resources - DOE report to Congress (2006).
  • RMRS Boise Laboratory Stream Temperature Modeling
  • Synthesis and Assessment Products of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.
    See in particular Product 4.3 - The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the U.S.
    Also see the 2nd Public Review Draft Report Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States of the United States Climate Change Scienc Program. The 1st Public Review Draft is here.
  • NCAR's "Water Cycle Across Scales"
  • National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center
  • A Paleo Prespective on Global Warming
  • Drought risk changes for US from climate change (based on PDSI)
  • US EPA Climate Change and Water Resources page
  • US EPA Aquatic Ecosystems, Water Quality, and Global Change: Challenges of conducting multi-stressor vulnerability assessments
  • US EPA National Water Program Strategy - Response to Climate Change.
  • US EPA 
  • US EPA Climate Ready Utilities Toolbox
  • US EPA's Tribal Climate Change Adaptation Options
  • CEQ National Action Plan: Priorities for Managing Freshwater Resources in a changing climate.
  • USGS, CEQ, OSTP, NOAA and other federal agencies: Strengthening the scientific understanding of climate change impacts on freshwater resources  of the US. 
  • N. Arizona U. Tribal Climate Change
  • US Fish & Wildlife Climate Change Strategy
  • National Wildlife Federation Guide to ecological vulnerability assessments
  • US National Wildlife Federation Facing the storm: Indian tribes, climate-induced weather extremes, and the future for Indian country.
  • US National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center
  • US 2nd National Assessment Report (2008) - Climate Change Impacts on the US. (The 1st National Assessment (2004) is here)
  • Estimated use of water in the U.S. in 2005. USGS report, 2009.
  • AWWA forecasting demand for water
  • The National Academy's America's Climate Choices
  • Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies Climate Change Page
  • WUCA-Water Utility Climate Alliance
    * white paper on WUCA's climate modeling needs
  • Colorado River Water Availability Study
  • Bull Trout & Climate Change
  • Climate Change and Water: Forest Service Perspectives
  • How energy policy can affect water in the U.S. West
  • California
  • California Climate Change Portal
  • Indicators of Climate Change in the state
  • California Climate Action Team reports (4-1-09)
  • California Cal Climate Change Center Water Supply Page
  • California Department of Water Resources Climate Change Page
  • Aquafornia (California water news blog)
  • Cal-adapt web page
  • Experimental forecast reference crop evapotranspiration (FRET) for California's Sacramento-San Joaquin watershed (NOAA, 2011)
  • Pacific Northwest
  • Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium
  • Northwest Climate Science Center (Dep. Interior)
  • Climate Impacts Group at the U. of Washington
  • Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (PCCRI)
  • U. Washington Program on Climate Change
  • Washington State Climate Change Impacts Assessment (WACCIA)
  • Swinomish Tribe Climate Change Initiative: Impact Assessment Report
  • C3: Climate Change Collaboration in the Pacific Northwest (fed. agencies)
  • Idaho Climate Change
  • U. Washington's Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO)
  • Climate Change Impacts on Transportation Systems in the PNW
  • Canada
  • Canadian Climate Change Scenarios Network
  • The Ouranos consortium on regional climatology and adaptation to climate change.
  • Mexico
  • Digital Atlas of Mexico (and adjacent areas): DCAM.

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