Anticipating Installation Natural Resource Climate Change Concerns: The Data

Abstract

The effects of climate change are expected to impact military installations in the Continental United States (CONUS), including Army installations that have large land-based range areas used for testing, training, or maneuvers. Climate change has the potential to affect several management concerns at Army installations. Natural areas may shift on installations and change the costs to maintain training and testing areas. Climate change is likely to increase the management costs for Threatened and Endangered Species (TES) and noxious invasive species (NIS). This document describes a set of climate change data gathered to support a larger project undertaken to determine the thresholds of climatic characteristics of these targeted species. This work describes available climatic data that will show what the major Global Climatic Models (GCMs) predict about those changes, using Fort Bragg, NC as an example.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 15, 2013
Accession Number
ADA592520

Entities

People

  • James D. Westervelt
  • Matthew Hiett
  • Robert C. Lozar

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agriculture
  • Climate
  • Climate Change
  • Data Processing
  • Databases
  • Endangered Species
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • High Resolution
  • Natural Resources
  • North America
  • Standards
  • United States
  • Weather Stations
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Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

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  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.