GIS Climate Change Scenarios project

In FY04 the GIS Initiative started a “GIS Climate Change Scenarios” project to serve a wide community of GIS users interested in global climate change. In this project, the GIS Initiative collaborates with the Community Data Portal team to allow for web-based distribution of global datasets of climate change scenarios that are being generated for the upcoming 4th Assessment Report of the IPCC by the CCSM. Through a dynamic converter CCSM data are translated from the NetCDF format into a common GIS shapefile format. That allows user to view climate change data on-line via an Internet Mapping Server and to download global datasets for further GIS-based visualization, analysis, and mapping.

You can access the GIS Climate Change Portal here.