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Full Technical Report List
These 44 technical reports as well as 7 external contributions are scientific research studies projecting climate change impacts and exploring what those impacts mean for various sectors.
Agriculture
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Assessment of California Crop and Livestock Potential Adaptation to Climate Change
This report advances the understanding of climate change challenges facing California agriculture and how it is likely to adapt to those challenges, focusing on Central Valley crops, the dairy industry and the beef cattle grazing industry, which together comprise the great majority of farm value in California.
File Size: PDF 3.3 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-018 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Increasing Soil Organic Carbon to Mitigate Greenhouse Gases and Increase Climate Resiliency for California
This report advances understanding of multiple benefits, including increased climate resilience, of increasing the organic matter content of soils across California’s working lands.
File Size: PDF 6.1 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-006 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential of Composting and Soil Amendments on California's Rangelands
This report advances the understanding of how rangeland management can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation by repurposing California’s organic waste-stream to compost for emissions reduction and carbon sequestration.
File Size: PDF 2.5 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-002 |
Published: August 27, 2018
Biodiversity
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Climate-Wise Landscape Connectivity: Why, How, and What Next
This report advances understanding of designing and implementing climate-wise connectivity strategies to mitigate and help species adapt to climate change.
File Size: PDF 2.5 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-001 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
San Diego County Ecosystems: Ecological Impacts of Climate Change on a Biodiversity Hotspot
This report considers how projected changes in climate may affect San Diego’s diverse and unique landscape, as well as how boundary organizations can collaborate across jurisdictions and disciplines to accomplish landscape-scale planning and conservation.
File Size: PDF 11.1 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-EXT-2018-010 |
Published: August 27, 2018
Energy
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High Resolution Measurement of Levee Subsidence Related to Natural Gas Infrastructure in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
This report contributes to our understanding of energy sector resilience through acquisition of very high-resolution data portraying Delta subsidence in areas with natural gas infrastructure and analysis of how subsidence compounds risks related to sea level rise.
File Size: PDF 3.6 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-003 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Assessing Extreme Weather-Related Vulnerability and Identifying Resilience Options for California's Interdependent Transportation Fuel Sector
This report provides a framework for assessing vulnerability of California’s transportation fuel sector to weather-related events as well as assessing exposure to wildfires and flooding at both coarse (statewide) resolution and, for several vulnerable assets, very fine scale that fosters stakeholder engagement.
File Size: PDF 79.1 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-012 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
The Adaption Blind Spot: Teleconnected and Cascading Impacts of Climate Change on the Electrical Grid and Lifelines in Los Angeles
This report works closely with stakeholders to explore how climate-related vulnerability of the electric grid in Southern California can create teleconnected and cascading impacts to important resources and services.
File Size: PDF 2.9 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-008 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Assessing the Impact of Wildfires on the California Electricity Grid
This report analyze risks posed by wildfires to electricity transmission and distribution in California.
File Size: PDF 8.7 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-002 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Climate Adaptive Response Estimation: Short and Long Run Impacts of Climate Change on Residential Electricity and Natural Gas Consumption Using Big Data
This report uses big data to clarify how climate change is expected to affect residential electricity and natural gas consumption at the zip code level.
File Size: PDF 2.2 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-EXT-2018-005 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Sixteen Ways Energy Efficiency Researchers See People + Why it Matters for Climate Change
This report explores how experience from the energy efficiency field can best be adapted to serve climate change policy goals. It recommends seeing energy use as a sociotechnical system with people as prime movers, and speaks to combining big data with social sciences to substantiate certain patterns in this system.
File Size: PDF 1.1 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-EXT-2018-008 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Modeling and Observations to Detect Neighborhood-Scale Heat Islands and Inform Effective Countermeasures in Los Angeles
This report improves our understanding of factors that contribute to urban heat islands, which exacerbate peak energy demand, and by providing a basis for assessing the performance efforts to address urban heat islands.
File Size: PDF 4 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-007 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Climate Change in Los Angeles County: Grid Vulnerability to Extreme Heat
This report investigates the vulnerability of Los Angeles County’s electricity grid to projected heat waves as well as resilience options to safeguard reliability.
File Size: PDF 7.1 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-013 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Feather River Hydrologic Observatory: Improving Hydrological Snowpack Forecasting for Hydropower Generation Using Intelligent Information Systems
This report provide methods to improve management of hydropower through improved streamflow forecasting.
File Size: PDF 3.9 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-001 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Rising Seas and Electricity Infrastructure: Potential Impacts and Adaptation Options for San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E)
This report clarifies sea level rise-related risks to San Diego Gas & Electric’s (SDG&E)
File Size: PDF 3.7 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-004 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Potential Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Actions for Gas Assets in the San Diego Gas and Electric Company Service Area
This report assesses natural gas sector vulnerabilities and resilience options specific to San Diego Gas & Electric Company’s service territory.
File Size: PDF 6.1 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-009 |
Published: August 27, 2018
Forests & Wildfire
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Fuel Treatment for Forest Resilience and Climate Mitigation: A Critical Review for Coniferous Forests of California
This report advances the understanding of fuel treatments as a potential mitigation for wildfire hazard and risk, associated carbon storage, and wildfire emissions.
File Size: PDF 1.6 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-017 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Innovations in Measuring and Managing Forest Carbon Stocks in California
This report explores new approaches to measure forest biomass and develops new methods to quantify the trade-off between biomass storage and stability for fire prone forests.
File Size: PDF 4.5 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-014 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
The Impact of Changing Wildfire Risks on California's Residential Insurance Market
This report advances the understanding of climate-related risks and resilience options by examining how wildfire risk is expected to change and the potential implications for the residential insurance market.
File Size: PDF 3.4 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-008 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Assessing the Impact of Wildfires on the California Electricity Grid
This report analyze risks posed by wildfires to electricity transmission and distribution in California.
File Size: PDF 8.7 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-002 |
Published: August 27, 2018
Governance
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Overcoming Organizational Barriers to Implementing Local Government Adaptation Strategies
This report documents the development and findings of the Adaptation Capability Advancement Toolkit (Adapt-CA), which aims to helps local governments build their internal capacity to address climate change resilience.
File Size: PDF 6.6 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-005 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Adaptation Finance Challenges: Characteristic Patterns Facing California Local Governments and Ways to Overcome Them
This report advances the understanding of local governments' climate change adaptation finance challenges by examining the nature of those challenges and proposing solutions to address them.
File Size: PDF 3.5 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-007 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Adapting air quality management for a changing climate: Survey of local districts in California (Externally Published)
This externally-published supporting research explores local manager perspectives and experiences of managing air quality within a changing climate as one puzzle piece to understand the gap in climate adaptation within the air quality sector.
File Size: PDF 0.3 mb |
Published: Externally
Oceans & Coasts
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Land Acquisition and Ecosystem Carbon in Coastal California
This report analyzes California's ecosystem carbon sequestration and evaluating the potential impact of avoided development.
File Size: PDF 2.4 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-EXT-2018-003 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Growing Effort, Growing Challenge: Findings from the 2016 California Coastal Adaptation Needs Assessment
This report advances the understanding of local governments' climate change adaptation finance challenges by examining the nature of those challenges and proposing solutions to address them (EXT-3).
File Size: PDF 22.5 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-EXT-2018-009 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
California Mussels as Bio-Indicators of Ocean Acidification
This report explores the utility of employing newly settled California mussels as a bio-indicator of effects of ocean acidification.
File Size: PDF 1.3 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-003 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Assessing and Communicating the Impacts of Climate Change on the Southern California Coast
This report assesses the coastal impacts of climate change for the California coast, including the combination of sea level rise, storms, and coastal change and translates that information into two simple, user-friendly online web tools.
File Size: PDF 4.7 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-013 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Toward Natural Shoreline Infrastructure to Manage Coastal Change in California
This report is intended to facilitate the use of Natural Shoreline Infrastructure along California’s coast, improving the resilience of communities and habitats in the face of climate change.
File Size: PDF 3 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-011 |
Published: August 27, 2018
Projections, Datasets, and Tools
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Climate, Drought, and Sea Level Rise Scenarios for California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment
This report provides high-resolution projections of future climate and hydrological parameters of importance to the energy system as well as probabilistic and hourly sea level rise projections, stream flows at select locations, and extended drought scenarios.
File Size: PDF 8.6 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-006 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Wildfire Simulations for California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment: Projecting Changes in Extreme Wildfire Events with a Warming Climate
This report provides wildfire scenarios that incorporate impacts of climate change.
File Size: PDF 2.9 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-014 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Projected Changes in California's Precipitation Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves
This report provides projected changes in extreme precipitation events in California.
File Size: PDF 3 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-005 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Statistical Prediction of Minimum and Maximum Air Temperature in California and Western North America
This report improves our understanding of probabilistic forecasts, which have the potential to improve energy system management in California’s variable and changing climate.
File Size: PDF 3.2 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-011 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Subseasonal to Seasonal Temperature Prediction Skill over the California Region from Global Dynamical Forecasts
This report improves our understanding of subseasonal and seasonal forecasts of climate-related variables of importance for managing California’s natural gas system.
File Size: PDF 2.5 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-010 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Cumulative Global CO2 Emissions and Their Climate Impact from Local through Regional Scales
This report contributes to our understanding of the relationship between global greenhouse gas emissions and regional climate impacts in California that allows the estimation of potential impacts with the Paris Agreement.
File Size: PDF 2.4 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-EXT-2018-007 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Projected Changes in Precipitation, Temperature, and Drought Across California's Hydrologic Regions
This report investigates potential changes in future precipitation, temperature, and drought across 10 hydrologic regions in California to inform adaptation strategies.
File Size: PDF 1.4 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-EXT-2018-002 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Cal-Adapt: Linking Climate Science with Energy Sector Resilience and Practitioner Need
This report provides an interactive tool enabling exploration, visualization, and analysis of data portraying climate-related risks to the energy system.
File Size: PDF 1.5 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CEC-2018-015 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Future scenarios of land change based on empirical data and demographic trends (Externally Published)
This externally-published supporting research developed an approach for projecting changes in land use and land cover based on land use histories and demographic trends.
File Size: PDF 0.3 mb |
Published: Externally
Public Health
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Assessing Vulnerability and Improving Resilience of Critical Emergency Management Infrastructure in California in a Changing Climate
This report advances the understanding of the effect of climate change on flooding and wildfire risk to state-owned and -operated emergency response infrastructure.
File Size: PDF 1.9 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-015 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Preparing Public Health Officials for Climate Change: A Decision Support Tool
This report and online tool advance the understanding of what types of heat waves pose public health risks for communities across California and examines how the frequency and severity of local heat waves are expected to change over time due to climate change.
File Size: PDF 2.2 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-012 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Investigating optimal urban heat mitigation strategies for vulnerable populations in a changing climate (Externally Published)
This externally-published supporting research investigates the most effective urban heat mitigation strategies for the populations that are most vulnerable to extreme heat.
File Size: PDF 0.3 mb |
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Examining the Association Between Temperature and Emergency Room Visits from Mental Health-Related Outcomes in California (Externally Published)
This externally-published supporting research examines the association between temperature and mental health-related outcomes, including violence and self-harm.
File Size: PDF 0.3 mb |
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Drought Impacts and Drought Vulnerability in Rural Communities of California's San Joaquin Valley (Externally Published)
This externally-published supporting research examines the drought vulnerability of farmworkers both in the fields and in their communities by analyzing how changes in water resources and agricultural practices impact socioeconomic drought.
File Size: PDF 0.3 mb |
Published: Externally
Water
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Climate Change Risk Faced by the California Central Valley Water Resource System
This report assesses future performance of key water resources management factors for the Central Valley water system using probability-based climate change risk assessment.
File Size: PDF 2.1 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-EXT-2018-001 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Addressing Institutional Vulnerabilities In California’s Drought Water Allocation Part 1: Water Rights Administration and Oversight During Major Statewide Droughts, 1976–2016
This report advances the understanding of the need for more proactive efforts to improve water rights administration and oversight during droughts by examining the strategies the State Water Resources Control Board used to carry out its water rights responsibilities during past droughts.
File Size: PDF 3.9 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-009 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Addressing Institutional Vulnerabilities In California’s Drought Water Allocation Part 2: Improving Water Rights Administration and Oversight for Future Droughts
This report advances the understanding of how the State Water Resources Control Board could approach proactively improving water rights administration and oversight for future droughts by exploring the possibility of adopting a contingency-based framework to support drought decision making and implementing a suite of complementary actions to reduce uncertainty and lay the groundwork for more timely and effective drought response.
File Size: PDF 2.2 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-010 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Mean and Extreme Climate Change Impacts on the State Water Project
This report advances the understanding of the mid-century vulnerability of the State Water Project to various climate change factors including extreme scenarios.
File Size: PDF 1.7 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-EXT-2018-004 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Advancing Hydro-Economic Optimization to Identify Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Opportunities in California's Water System
This report advances the understanding of the cost of water supply shortage under a range of future climates, and examines possible adaptations to operations and infrastructure to help mitigate these impacts.
File Size: PDF 3 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-016 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Drought Management and Climate Adaptation of Small, Self-Sufficient Drinking Water Systems in California
This report advances understanding of how small self-sufficient drinking water systems were affected and challenged by the 2012-2016 California Drought and provides insight into needs, challenges and barriers to climate adaptation to reduce risks of future extreme events.
File Size: PDF 1.7 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-CNRA-2018-004 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Development of Stage-Frequency Curves in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
This report provides estimates of future high water-level frequency and duration due to sea level rise in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
File Size: PDF 7.5 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-EXT-2018-011 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Management of Groundwater and Drought Under Climate Change
This report advances understanding of drought and groundwater management including current and newer strategies being used to address future droughts under climate change.
File Size: PDF 1.8 mb |
Report #: CCCA4-EXT-2018-006 |
Published: August 27, 2018 -
Gauging preparedness to managing drinking water quality for climate change in California (Externally Published)
This externally-published supporting research presents results from a survey of drinking water utilities about the perceived threat, analytic capacity, and adaptation actions related to maintaining water quality in the face of climate change.
File Size: PDF 0.3 mb |
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Climate information? Embedding climate futures within temporalities of California water management (Externally Published)
This externally-published supporting research uses the case of drinking water utility managers in California to understand uses of climate-change information in resource management.
File Size: PDF 0.3 mb |
Published: Externally