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Sustained Assessment
USGCRP is implementing a sustained National Climate Assessment process that will ultimately facilitate continuous and transparent participation of scientists and stakeholders across regions and sectors, enabling new information and insights to be synthesized as they emerge. Current sustained assessment activities are listed below; more information will be added as it becomes available.
Interim Assessments and Technical Reports inform the larger quadrennial process of National Climate Assessments
- The Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2)
- USDA technical report: Global Climate Change, Food Security, and the U.S. Food System (released December 2015)
- Final report and supporting materials (released December 2, 2015)
- Request for public comment on draft report (Federal Register Notice posted September 8, 2015)
- Opportunity to nominate expert reviewers (Federal Register Notice posted July 8, 2014)
- Expert Stakeholder Workshop Report
- USDA technical report: Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the United States (released February 2016)(link is external)
- USGCRP Climate and Health Assessment
- Final report and supporting materials (released April 4, 2016)
Scenarios
- The Climate Scenarios Task Force (CSTF) and the Scenarios and Interpretive Science Coordinating Group (SISCG) work on the underlying scenarios for the sustained assessment and the upcoming NCA4.
Global Change Information System (GCIS)
- GCIS is a tool that underpins many parts of the sustained assessment process
Indicators
A network of climate change indicators supports the sustained assessment process:
- USGCRP Indicator Platform
- Citizen Science Contributions to the National Climate Assessment Workshop Report (Workshop held in 2014)
- Poster: "Tracking a changing climate: Citizen science contributions to climate change indicator systems" (summarizes a roundtable held in November 2014)