This field guide is designed to put useful climate change and adaptation information into the hands of natural resource professionals as they walk through the woods. This field guide provides summary information about the effects of climate change on northern Wisconsin’s forests, helps professionals identify existing site conditions that could increase or reduce risk from climate change, and…

Foresters, biologists, and land managers are working hard to preserve these forests for future generations, as part of the Mid-Atlantic Climate Change Response Framework. Understanding how our forests are changing now and how they will continue to change in the future is the key to making sustainable choices. To help with these decisions, the Mid-Atlantic Forest Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment…

The Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) is an interactive web application designed to assist in managing and monitoring America's rangelands. The RAP datasets are derived from over 40 years of remote sensing data (1984-2018) and they enable users to monitor trends and changes in different types of rangeland vegetation at the pasture, landscape, or regional scales. The tool was developed for…

Climate change is already having substantial effects on natural systems and the benefits they provide. It is important to understand and consider how climate change may intensify through this century in order to prepare for future changes. This application features three metrics that influence plant growth and survival: growing degree days, plant hardiness zones, and heat zones. It displays…

Forested watersheds improve water quality and enhance water storage, naturally regulate streamflows, reduce flood damages and stormwater runoff, replenish groundwater and provide a myriad of other benefits. Significant changes in temperature and precipitation present challenges to ensuring long-term ecosystem health, particularly in sensitive and unique riparian areas, and may amplify existing…

The “Select Precipitation Variable’ dropdown control allows you to plot three variables: An average of the cumulative precipitation for the 5 nearest Mesonet stations calculated for the current year (plotted in white) and for each of the past 10 years.

Managing your agricultural risk in a changing climate.

The AgRisk Viewer provides an accessible and discoverable web platform for crop insurance loss data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA). Data are available from the county to national scale on a monthly to multi-year timestep.

In 2016 alone, over $100 billion worth of crops…

The Climate Perspectives (CLIMPER) tool allows users to assess how recent weather and climate at a given weather station compares with prior time periods (e.g. days, weeks, months or years) in the climatological record. The daily updated climatological information allows the user to readily assess the extremes of an ongoing weather event, or regime (e.g. exceptionally hot, cold or wet conditions…

Every spring, ranchers face the same difficult challenge – trying to guess how much grass will be available for livestock to graze during the upcoming summer. An innovative Grassland Productivity Forecast or “Grass-Cast” is now helping producers in the Great Plains and Southwest regions reduce this economically important source of uncertainty.

Grass-Cast indicates for ranchers and…