Tool

Climate Inspector

Description

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The Climate Inspector is an interactive web application which expands GIS mapping and graphing capabilities to visualize possible temperature and precipitation changes for 20-year periods throughout the 21st century. Users can explore how temperature and precipitation may change based on four emission trajectories (Representative Concentration Pathways), investigate climate changes around the globe and through time, inspect climate trends, variability and uncertainty, and download maps and data. You can also download temporal climate data for a single grid cell.

The maps and graphs are generated from a large dataset of climate simulations by the NCAR Community Climate System Model (CCSM4). These simulations were prepared for the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The tool invites users to "Explore Climate Anomalies, Variability, and Uncertainty in Space and Time."

The tool is freely available for use. Downloading GIS data layers from the site requires you to register and sign in.