ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is increasingly considering potential climate change impacts when undertaking long-term planning, setting priorities and making decisions that affect resources, programs, policies and operations.
USACE has released two new regional climate change and hydrology literature syntheses for Tennessee Region and Ohio Region. The reports are part of a series of 21 regional climate syntheses prepared by USACE under the leadership of the Institute for Water Resources (IWR) Global and Climate Change team at the scale of 2-digit U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Hydrologic Unit Codes (HUC) across the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. These two Civil Works Technical Reports represent the following regions:
Each of these regional reports summarizes observed and projected climate and hydrological patterns cited in reputable peer-reviewed literature and authoritative national and regional reports, and characterizes climate threats to USACE business lines, (e.g., flood risk management). They also provide context and linkage to other agency resources for climate resilience planning, such as downscaled climate data for subregions and watershed vulnerability assessment tools.
Kathleen D. White, PhD, PE, and Jeffrey R. Arnold, PhD, of IWR's Global and Climate Change team are leading the effort. More information about these regional climate change and hydrology literature syntheses and other vulnerability assessments and reporting can be found on the Responses to Climate Change website.
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