Climate Change and the United States

[National Studies] [Sub-National Studies] [State Studies] [Sectoral Studies]

National Studies

National Assessment Synthesis Team. 2001. Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, Foundation Report. US Global Change Research Program: Washington, DC. Available at:
http://earth.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/nationalassessment/foundation.htm

National Assessment Synthesis Team. 2000. Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, Overview Report. US Global Change Research Program: Washington, DC. Available at:
http://earth.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/nationalassessment/overview.htm

U.S. Department of State. 2002. U.S. Climate Action Report - 2002: Third National Communication of the United States of America Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
PDF: http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/natc/usnc3.pdf

Hulme, Mike and Nicola Sheard. 1999. Climate Change Scenarios for the United States of America. Climatic Research Unit at University of East Anglia: Norwich, UK.
PDF: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~mikeh/research/usa.pdf

U.S. Department of State. 1997. Climate Action Report: 1997 Submission of the United States of America Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
PDF: http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/natc/usnc2.pdf

Smith, Joel B., and Dennis Tirpak. 1989. The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States: Report to Congress. United States Environmental Protection Agency: Washington, D.C. EPA-230-05-89-050.
FULL TEXT: http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/...cationsSLRPotentialUSEffects.html

Sub-National Studies

Kling, George W., Katharine Hayhoe, Lucinda B. Johnson, John J. Magnuson, Stephen Polasky, Scott K. Robinson, et al. 2003. Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on Our Communities and Ecosystems, The Union of Concerned Scientists: Cambridge, MA, and The Ecological Society of America: Washington, D.C.
PDF: http://www.ucsusa.org/.../confronting_climate_change_in_the_great_lakes.pdf

Bloomfield, Janine, and Steven Hamburg. 1997. Seasons of Change: Global Warming and New England's White Mountains. Environmental Defense Fund: Washington, D.C.
PDF: http://www.environmentaldefense.org/documents/396_GWWhtMtns.pdf

Sectoral Studies

[Agriculture], [Coastal Resources], [Ecosystems and Species], [Human Health], [Water Resources]

Agriculture

Reilly, J., F. Tubiello, B. McCarl, D. Abler, R. Darwin, et al. 2003. "U.S. Agriculture and Climate Change: New Results," Climatic Change, Vol. 57, pp. 43-69. [ABSTRACT]
PDF: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/gpol/docs/2003/2003_ReillyTubiello.pdf.

Abler, David, James Shortle, Jeffrey Carmichael, and Richard Horan. 2002. "Climate Change, Agriculture, and Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay Region," Climatic Change, Vol. 55, No. 3, November, pp. 339-359. [ABSTRACT]

Rosenzweig, Cynthia, Francesco N. Tubiello, Richard Goldberg, Evan Mills, and Janine Bloomfield. 2002. "Increased crop damage in the US from excess precipitation under climate change," Global Environmental Change, Vol. 12, No. 3, October, pp. 197-202. [ABSTRACT]
PDF: http://eetd.lbl.gov/EMills/PUBS/PDF/Crops_GEC.pdf.

Thomson, Allison M., Robert A. Brown, Steven J. Ghan, et al. 2002. "Elevation Dependence of Winter Wheat Production in Eastern Washington State with Climate Change: A Methodological Study," Climatic Change, Vol. 54, No. 1-2, July, pp. 141-164. [ABSTRACT]

Southworth, Jane, R. A. Pfeifer, M. Habeck, et al. 2002. "Changes in Soybean Yields in the Midwestern United States as a Result of Future Changes in Climate, Climate Variability, and CO2 Fertilization," Climatic Change, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 447-475. [ABSTRACT]

Tubiello, F.N., C. Rosenzweig, R.A. Goldberg, S. Jagtap, and J.W. Jones. 2002. "Effects of climate change on U.S. crop production: Simulation results using two different GCM scenarios. Part I: Wheat, potato, maize, and citrus," Climate Research, Vol. 20, pp. 259-270. [ABSTRACT]

Mearns, L. O., W. Easterling, C. Hays, and D. Marx. 2001. "Comparison of Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change Calculated from High and Low Resolution Climate Change Scenarios: Part I. The Uncertainty Due to Spatial Scale," Climatic Change, Vol. 51, No. 2, November, pp. 131-172. [ABSTRACT]

Easterling, W. E., L. O. Mearns, C. J. Hays, and D. Marx. 2001. "Comparison of Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change Calculated from High and Low Resolution Climate Change Scenarios: Part II. Accounting for Adaptation and CO2 Direct Effects," Climatic Change, Vol. 51, No. 2, November, pp. 173-197. [ABSTRACT]

Southworth, Jane, J. C. Randolpha, M. Habeckb, O. C. Doeringb, R. A. Pfeifer, et al. 2000. "Consequences of future climate change and changing climate variability on maize yields in the midwestern United States," Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Vol. 82, No. 1-3 , December, pp. 139-158. [ABSTRACT]

Adams, R.M., B.H. Hurd, and J. Reilly. 1999. A review of impacts to U.S. agricultural resources. Pew Center on Global Climate Change: Arlington, VA.
PDF: http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/env_argiculture.pdf

Brown, Robert A., and Norman J. Rosenberg. 1999. "Climate Change Impacts on the Potential Productivity of Corn and Winter Wheat in Their Primary United States Growing Regions," Climatic Change, Vol. 41, No. 1, January, pp. 73-107. [ABSTRACT]

Giorgi, Filippo, Linda O. Mearns, Christine Shields, and Larry McDaniel. 1998. "Regional Nested Model Simulations of Present Day and 2 × CO2 Climate over the Central Plains of the U.S.," Climatic Change, Vol. 40. No. 3-4, December, pp. 457-493. [ABSTRACT]

Rosenzweig, C., J. Phillips, R. Goldberg, J. Carroll, and T. Hodges. 1996. "Potential impacts of climate change on citrus and potato production in the US," Agricultural Systems, Vol. 52, pp. 455-479. [ABSTRACT]

Adams, R.M., R.A. Fleming, C.-C. Chang, B.A. McCarl, and C. Rosenzweig. 1995. "A reassessment of the economic effects of global climate change on U.S. agriculture," Climatic Change, Vol. 30, pp. 147-167. [ABSTRACT]

Rosenzweig, C., and D. Hillel. 1993. "The Dust Bowl of the 1930s: Analog of greenhouse effect in the Great Plains?," Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 22, pp. 9-22. [ABSTRACT]

Adams, R.M., C. Rosenzweig, R.M. Peart, J.T. Ritchie, B.A. McCarl, et al. 1990. "Global climate change and U.S. agriculture," Nature, Vol. 345, pp. 219-224. [ABSTRACT]

Rosenzweig, C. 1985. "Potential CO2-induced climate effects on North American wheat-producing regions," Climatic Change, Vol. 7, pp. 367-389. [ABSTRACT]

Coastal Resources

Kennedy, Victor S., Robert R. Twilley, Joan A. Kleypas, and James H. Cowan, Jr. 2002. Coastal and Marine Ecosystems & Global Climate Change: Potential Effects on U.S. Resources. Pew Center on Global Climate Change: Arlington, VA.
PDF: http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/marine_ecosystems.pdf

Twilley, Robert R., Eric J. Barron, Henry L. Gholz, et al. 2001. Confronting Climate Change in the Gulf Coast Region: Prospects for Sustaining Our Ecological Heritage. Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Ecological Society of America, Washington, D.C.
PDF: http://www.ucsusa.org/publication.cfm?publicationID=78

Neumann, James E., Gary Yohe, Robert Nicholls, and Michelle Manion. 2000. Sea-Level Rise & Global Climate Change: A Review of Impacts to U.S. Coasts. Pew Center on Global Climate Change: Arlington, VA. PDF: http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/env_sealevel.pdf

Boesch, Donald F., John C. Field, and D Donald Scavia (eds.). 2000. The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change on Coastal Areas and Marine Resources: Report of the Coastal Areas and Marine Resources Sector Team, U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, U.S. Global Change Research Program. NOAA Coastal Ocean Program Decision Analysis Series No. # 21. NOAA Coastal Ocean Program, Silver Spring, MD.
PDF: http://www.cop.noaa.gov/pubs/coastalclimate.PDF

Thieler, E. Robert and Erika S. Hammar-Klose. 1999. National Assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise: Preliminary Results for the U.S. Atlantic Coast. U.S. Geological Survey.
FULL TEXT: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of99-593/pages/toc.html

Yohe, Gary W., and Michael E. Schlesinger. 1998. "Sea-Level Change: The Expected Economic Cost of Protection Or Abandonment in the United States," Climatic Change, Vol. 38, No. 4, April, pp. 447-472. [ABSTRACT]

Ecosystems and Species

Mohseni, Omid, Heinz G. Stefan, and John G. Eaton. 2003. "Global Warming and Potential Changes in Fish Habitat in U.S. Streams," Climatic Change, Vol. 59, No 3, August, pp. 389-409. [ABSTRACT]

Shugart, Herman, Roger Sedjo, and Brent Sohngen. 2003. Forests & Global climate change: Potential Impacts on U.S. Forest Resources. Pew Center on Global Climate Change: Arlington, VA.
PDF: http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/forestry.pdf

Poff, N. LeRoy, Mark M. Brinson, John W. Day, Jr. 2002. Aquatic Ecosystems and Global Climate Change: Potential Impacts on Inland Freshwater and Coastal Wetland Ecosystems in the United States. Pew Center on Global Climate Change: Arlington, VA.
PDF: http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/aquatic.pdf

Wang, Guiming, N. Thompson Hobbs, Francis J. Singer, et al. 2001. "Impacts of Climate Changes on Elk Population Dynamics in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, U.S.A.," Climatic Change, Vol. 54, No. 1-2, July, pp. 205-223. [ABSTRACT]

Malcolm, Jay R. and Louis F. Pitelka. 2000. Ecosystems & Global Climate Change: A Review of Potential Impacts on U.S. Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biodiversity. Pew Center on Global Climate Change: Arlington, VA.
PDF: http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/env_ecosystems.pdf

Fang, Xing, and Heinz G. Stefan. 1999. "Projections of Climate Change Effects on Water Temperature Characteristics of Small Lakes in the Contiguous U.S.," Climatic Change, Vol. 42, No. 2, June, pp. 377-412. [ABSTRACT]

Mortsch, Linda D. 1998. "Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Shoreline Wetlands," Climatic Change, Vol. 40, No. 2, October, pp. 391-416. [ABSTRACT]

U.S. Geological Survey. 1997. Effects of Climate Change on Southeastern Forests. U.S. Department of the Interior: Washington, D.C.
PDF: http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/climate/fs93_97.pdf

Human Health

Gubler, Duane J., Paul Reiter, Kristie L. Ebi, Wendy Yap, Roger Nasci, and Jonathan A. Patz. 2001. "Climate Variability and Change in the United States: Potential Impacts on Vector- and Rodent-Borne Diseases," Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 109, Suppl. 2, May, pp. 223-233. [ABSTRACT]
PDF: http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2001/suppl-2/223-233gubler/gubler.pdf

Balbus, John M. and Mark L. Wilson. 2000. Human health & Global climate change: A Review of Potential Impacts in the United States. Pew Center on Global Climate Change: Arlington, VA.
PDF: http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/human_health.pdf

Water Resources

Frederick, Kenneth D. and Peter H. Gleick. 1999. Water and Global Climate Change: Potential Impacts on U.S. Water Resources. Pew Center on Global Climate Change: Arlington, VA.
PDF: http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/clim_change.pdf

Frei, A., R. L. Armstrong, M. P. Clark, and M. C. Serreze. 2002. "Catskill Mountain Water Resources: Vulnerability, Hydroclimatology, and Climate-Change Sensitivity," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 92, No. 2, June, pp. 203-224. [ABSTRACT]

Hamlet, Alan F. et al. 2001. Effects of Climate Change on Water Resources in the Pacific Northwest: Impacts and Policy Implications. JISAO Climate Impacts Group: University of Washington.
PDF: http://tao.atmos.washington.edu/PNWimpacts/Publications/Pub145.pdf

Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Andrew W. Wood, Richard N. Palmer, Eric F. Wood, and Eugene Z. Stakhiv. 1999. "Water Resources Implications of Global Warming: A U.S. Regional Perspective," Climatic Change, Vol. 43, No. 3, November, pp. 537-579. [ABSTRACT]

Rosenberg, Norman J., Daniel J. Epstein, David Wang, et al. 1999. "Possible Impacts of Global Warming on the Hydrology of the Ogallala Aquifer Region," Climatic Change, Vol. 42, No. 4, August, pp. 677-692. [ABSTRACT]