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Data Spotlight Series

By Climate Adaptation Science Centers

The CASC network Data Spotlight series showcases some of the many high-quality CASC data products. Spotlights explore how data sets were collected, how they can be accessed, and their potential applications.

Data Spotlight: Explore Climate-Induced Range Shifts with the CoRE (Contractions and Range Expansions) Database

Data Spotlight: Explore Climate-Induced Range Shifts with the CoRE (Contractions and Range Expansions) Database

Climate change represents one of the foremost drivers of ecological change, yet its documented impacts on biodiversity remain uncertain and complex...

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Data Spotlight: Improving Ecological Projections of Wildlife and Landscapes for Natural Resource Managers

Data Spotlight: Improving Ecological Projections of Wildlife and Landscapes for Natural Resource Managers

Ecosystem modelling is a vital tool for understanding complex human and natural systems, especially under a changing climate. To streamline this...

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Data Spotlight: Predicting Conifer Regeneration After Fire and Drought

Data Spotlight: Predicting Conifer Regeneration After Fire and Drought

Southwest CASC supported researchers collected seed count and post-fire conifer seedling observational data, matching these observations with...

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Data Spotlight: Diving into the Fish and Climate Change Database (FiCli)

Data Spotlight: Diving into the Fish and Climate Change Database (FiCli)

National CASC researchers and colleagues have developed the Fish and Climate Change Database (FiCli) as a searchable directory of peer-reviewed...

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Data Spotlight: Downscaled Climate Projections to Inform Climate Research in the South-Central U.S. Region

Data Spotlight: Downscaled Climate Projections to Inform Climate Research in the South-Central U.S. Region

Statistical downscaling is a technique used to translate large-scale Global Climate Models (GCM) data into smaller spatial scales (e.g. a single...

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Data Spotlight: Projecting Alaska Snowpack Response to Climate Change

Data Spotlight: Projecting Alaska Snowpack Response to Climate Change

Snow: More than just a Weather Phenomena

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Data Spotlight: Water

Data Spotlight: Water

Our latest data spotlight highlights three CASC datasets related to water in the Northeast, Pacific Islands, and Southwest regions.

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Data Spotlight: Linking Atmospheric Rivers to Wildfire Patterns in the Southwest

Data Spotlight: Linking Atmospheric Rivers to Wildfire Patterns in the Southwest

New dataset and publication identify link between atmospheric rivers and wildfire in the interior Southwest.

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Data Spotlight: Forecasting the Future of Hawai’i’s Forest Birds

Data Spotlight: Forecasting the Future of Hawai’i’s Forest Birds

Researchers with the Pacific Islands Climate Science Center have published a new dataset showing predicted changes in climate and the risk of malaria...

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Data Spotlight: New Statistically Downscaled Climate Data Available for the Conterminous U.S.

Data Spotlight: New Statistically Downscaled Climate Data Available for the Conterminous U.S.

A new statistically downscaled climate model dataset covering the conterminous U.S. is now available for download in the USGS GeoData Portal.

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