Welcome to the Carpe Diem West Academy Discussion Forum. This feature allows Academy users to share information, thoughts, questions and suggestions with each other creating virtual conversations between water manager on water-climate issues in the American West. We hope this feature facilitates the richessness of peer-to-peer learning and interaction and creates a venue to build relationships and connections.
Training Tools
While the workshop lays a foundation in science, it primarily focuses on actions that can be taken to prepare and adapt to the anticipated impacts of climate change. A foundational component of this workshop was the authoritative guidebook "Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments," co-authored by two of the original instructors of this workshop.
This short course is aimed at planning practitioners engaged in policy development and decision-making at all levels of government and to those who will be working within these frameworks.
This University of Arizona site presents the essential steps in building scenarios and reviews options for simple or complex scenario building.
see module: Climate change fitting the pieces together. This is a basic level lecture on climate and climate change. (Others modules on this page may also be helpful.)
Basic, intermediate and advanced level training in hydrology. Several modules could be useful.
NOAA Coastal Services has developed an online self-guided course which introduces coastal management professionals to needs assessments and how to conduct one. By systematically assessing target audience needs, coastal programs can determine a focus and direction and make better-informed decisions about program or project objectives.
The distance learning curriculum utilizes e-learning technology to clarify graphs and concepts from the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Summary for Policy Makers with content intricately linked to the Essential Principles of Climate Literacy. The Regional Climate Change unit might be particularly useful here.
Training tools involve online courses and/or certifications related to climate change planning.
Downscaled CMIP3 Climate & Hydrology Projections
This data tool was developed by a team of government agencies and universities and contains statistically downscaled data at a 1/8 degree spatial resolution. It was derived from climate projections referenced in IPCC AR4. Data includes temperature, precipitation and hydrologic conditions. Check out the tutorial tab on their site for a demonstration on custom data retrieval methods.
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