CA DWR |
California Department of Water Resources |
CISESS |
Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies |
CMIP5 |
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 |
CO2 |
carbon dioxide |
CONUS |
contiguous United States |
COOP |
Cooperative Observer Network |
DC |
District of Columbia |
EF |
Enhanced Fujita Scale |
F |
Fahrenheit |
F |
Fujita Scale |
FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency |
GCM |
global climate model |
GCRA |
Global Change Research Act |
GHCN-Daily |
Global Historical Climatology Network–Daily |
GHCN-Monthly |
Global Historical Climatology Network–Monthly |
GLERL |
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory |
GMSL |
global mean sea level |
hPa |
hectopascal |
IPCC AR5 |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report |
mph |
miles per hour |
MRCC |
Midwestern Regional Climate Center |
NADA |
North American Drought Atlas |
NCA |
National Climate Assessment |
NCA3 |
Third National Climate Assessment |
NCA4 |
Fourth National Climate Assessment |
NCEI |
National Centers for Environmental Information |
nClimDiv |
NOAA NCEI’s Climate Divisional Dataset |
NEMAC |
National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center |
NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
NFIP |
National Flood Insurance Program |
NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NOS |
National Ocean Service |
NPS |
National Park Service |
NRCS |
Natural Resources Conservation Service |
NSIDC |
National Snow and Ice Data Center |
NWCC |
National Water and Climate Center |
NWIS |
National Water Information Service |
NWS |
National Weather Service |
PDSI |
Palmer Drought Severity Index |
PRCCC |
Puerto Rico Climate Change Council |
RCP |
Representative Concentration Pathway |
SLR |
sea level rise |
SNOTEL |
Snow Telemetry (and Snow Course) data |
SWE |
snow water equivalent |
TAF |
thousand acre feet |
USACE |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
USBR |
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |
USDA |
U.S. Department of Agriculture |
USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
WCRP |
World Climate Research Programme |
WGCM |
Working Group on Coupled Modeling |