Cal-Adapt: Bringing Global Climate Change to a Local Application

The Cal-Adapt (http://cal-adapt.org) web application has been developed to showcase the wealth of innovative climate change research being produced by the scientific community in California. Through a combination of locally relevant information, visualization tools, and access to primary data, Cal-Adapt allows users to investigate how the climate is projected to change in their area of interest, and gives them tools to plan for these changes.

This presentation will introduce the process that our team undertook to plan for and develop this site, focusing on the challenges of presenting compelling visualizations of highly temporal raster data in a webGIS environment. It will also address the challenges faced with providing access to complex data sets and information to very different user groups, varying from general public to scientist.

In addition to describing the development process, there will also be a live demo presenting currently available data and features available through Cal-Adapt, including temperature, snowpack, sea level rise, and fire visualization tools, as well as new features and tools that are soon to be released.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• cal-adapt
• SPPD
• Price
• Kevin Koy
• USC
• Policy
• Planning
• Development
• Governance
• Bedrosian
• webGIS
• Climate
• Change