What Our Future Could Be….

The IPCC’s Working Group I included released a new tool with its report in August. The Interactive Atlas displays projected climate impacts based on the underlying data that the working group gathered and used to underpin its findings. Users can select from different parameters to see potential effects on global and regional climates. The tool has two components.

The first enables generation of global and regional maps in a variety of formats. The underlying data covers both observed and projected climate change for time periods, emissions scenarios or global warming levels of interest. The second component provides qualitative information about changes in climatic impact-drivers – variables that drive climate change such as heat and cold, wet and dry, or coastal and oceanic.

Anyone can use the Interactive Atlas to visualize what a changed climate may look like. Users can choose from among different assumptions and output parameters. For example, what will rain patterns look like if global average temperature rises by 3°C.

Instructions for using the tool are provided here. The data used by the Atlas is freely available. Information about the data sets is available here.

The Interactive Atlas is novel tool that enables a user to see the physical impacts climate change is likely to bring under different scenarios. It is worthwhile to explore.

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