Pacific Islands Pacific Observatory, Climate Monitoring

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 609.96 Historical, geographic, persons treatment
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC, 2023
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 311400
• Chủ đề: 1. CLIMATE DATA; 2. CLIMATE MONITORING; 3. CLIMATE RISK; 4. GLOBAL CLIMATE GRIDS; 5. SMALL ISLAND STATES VULNERABILITY TO WEATHER SHOCKS

Tóm tắt

Climate change poses an existential threat to many islands in the Pacific. Small island states in the region are increasingly vulnerable to extreme rainfall events, cyclones, changes in ocean circulation, and rising sea level. Climate data is a critical resource to help development actors prepare for and address the challenges of a changing environment. However, these datasets can be difficult to work with due to the technical characteristics of the raw data. They are often stored in complex time-series grid formats such as netcdf. The raw data often require additional processing steps to compute meaningful indicators, such as rainfall anomalies or drought indices. Additionally, global climate grids are typically produced at coarse spatial resolutions (~55 km), making them unsuitable to study climate dynamics in small island states.