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New Authoritative Climate Projections for the United States

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08-19-2025 12:56 PM
LisaBerry
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Understanding how temperature and precipitation may change in the future is a key part of the Steps to Resilience and building more climate-smart communities. We are excited that NOAA has contributed the latest climate projections, LOCA2, to the Living Atlas that were developed for the 5th National Climate Assessment (NCA5).

Which climate data should you use?

This blog helps address when to use LOCA2, CHELSA, NCA5 Atlas, or Global Wet Bulb Temperature in your work. 

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For the full blog by @DanPisut and @rantwerpen, click here

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I work as a Senior GIS Engineer and Evangelist for the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World team. I work with demographic datasets in order to create useful, understandable, and detailed demographic maps available through the online platform. I specialize in ArcGIS Online cartography, Arcade, python, and smart mapping.