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Interstate Highway

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: June 11, 2015

The U. S. Interstate Highway System has almost 50,000 miles of controlled-access highways spanning the country. Source : . Wikimedia Commons. Image credit: Matt H. Wade, CC BY-SA 3.0, ...

Nuisance Flooding in Key West, Florida

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: June 11, 2015

Extreme high tides that occur a few times per year in low-lying coastal areas inundate roads and other infrastructure with seawater. Image credit: National Weather Service. Public domain. Page/ ...

Observed U. S. Trend in Heavy Precipitation

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: June 11, 2015

One measure of a heavy precipitation event is a two-day precipitation total that is exceeded on average only once in a five-year period, also known as a once-in-five-year event. As this extreme precip ...

Airports Vulnerable to Storm Surge

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: June 11, 2015

Thirteen of the nation's 47 largest airports have at least one runway with an elevation within the reach of moderate to high storm surge. Sea level rise will pose a threat to low-lying infrastructure, ...

June El Niño update: Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead

Section: News & Features

Published: June 11, 2015

There’s a very high probability that El Niño will continue through the fall and early winter, and it could become a strong event.

Supply Chain Security

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: June 10, 2015

Summary: Increases in climate-related disruptions to transportation and telecommunication systems threaten the security of some supply chains.

Aviation

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: June 10, 2015

Summary: An extreme event in one location can trigger a delay that propagates through the commercial aviation system. Long-term threats, such as sea level rise, may also impact this interconnected system.

Waterborne Transportation

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: June 10, 2015

Summary: Changes in the magnitude and timing of precipitation are likely to have both positive and negative effects on transportation along rivers, in lakes, and in the oceans.

Cultural knowledge and local vulnerability in African American Communities

Section: News & Features

Published: June 10, 2015

Policymakers need to know what factors are most important in determining local vulnerability to facilitate effective adaptation to climate change. Quantitative vulnerability indices are helpful but .. ...

Semi-arid regions may be key to understanding and predicting variations in the land CO2 sink

Section: News & Features

Published: June 10, 2015

Terrestrial ecosystems pull about one-fourth of anthropogenic CO 2 emissions out of the atmosphere per year, serving as a sink for CO 2 since industrialization. Minor swings in CO 2 fluxes can cause . ...