Presented by the CDFW Climate Change Work Group, the US Geological Survey, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service:

“Bridging the Gap: Downscaling Climate Models to Inform Management Actions” Workshop

9:00-5:30 • November 3, 2010 • CSU-Sacramento

Goals

The intent of this workshop was to

• Bring together those individuals conducting cutting edge research on climate downscaling in California with key ecologists, natural resource managers and partners;
• Provide participants with a shared technical understanding of potential downscaling applications to ecological resource management;
• Provide an opportunity for discussion on data needs and the challenges of dealing with uncertainty, scale and resolution.

Format

• The entire workshop was webcast and recorded.
• Following each set of presentations, a panel discussion was held between the presenters and invited participants to discuss key topics and respond to audience questions regarding how downscaled models can be used to help inform climate change adaptation planning and natural resource management activities.
• The panel discussions were intended to provide an opportunity for participants to have direct interactions with presenters to help answer questions, identify challenges to interpreting and using downscaled models in natural resource management planning and identify opportunities for overcoming such barriers.

Documents

• Agenda (PDF)
• Presentations
  • Bridging the Gap: Downscaling  Climate Models to Inform  Management Actions-A Quick Review of Survey Results (PDF)
  • Experience with Downscaling Experience with Downscaling Techniques at DWR (PDF)
  • Downscaled Climate  Projections for California (PDF)
  • A framework for assessing adaptation strategies for plants threatened by strategies for plants threatened by climate, land use, climate, land use, and altered fire regimes and altered fire regimes (PDF)
  • Downscaling future climate scenarios to the watershed scale:a North San Francisco Bay Estuary case study (PDF)
  • Climate change and biodiversity:implications for Bay Area conservation (PDF)
  • Applying Downscaled Data to Large-scale Wildlife Corridor Planning (PDF)
  • Statistical Downscaling for the State of California (PDF)
  • Downscaling Future Climate Scenarios to Ecologically Meaningful Scales (PDF)