Technical appendix for the report Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on Our Communities and Ecosystems

The document outlines the use of HadCM3 and Parallel Climate Model (PCM) data, combined with IPCC 2000 emission scenarios and a century of historical records, to project climate changes in the Great Lakes region. The analysis indicates greater temperature increases, especially in summer, and general drying during summer and fall compared to previous assessments.

• The study utilized two three-dimensional climate models—the HadCM3 and the Parallel Climate Model (PCM)—alongside IPCC 2000 standard emission scenarios ('high', 'medium', and 'low') and a historical climate database spanning over 100 years to project regional changes.
• The current projections show a higher degree of agreement between different models than previous assessments, such as the U.S. National Assessment, and predict more significant temperature increases (particularly in summer) and increased drying during summer and fall across the region.

APA

Union of Concerned Scientists (2014). Technical appendix for the report Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on Our Communities and Ecosystems. https://www.ucs.org/resources/great-lakes-report-technical-appendix-climate-change-projections

Chicago

Union of Concerned Scientists. Technical appendix for the report Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on Our Communities and Ecosystems. 2014. https://www.ucs.org/resources/great-lakes-report-technical-appendix-climate-change-projections.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{unionofconcernedscientists2014technical, author = {{Union of Concerned Scientists}}, title = {{Technical appendix for the report Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on Our Communities and Ecosystems}}, institution = {Union of Concerned Scientists}, year = {2014}, month = jun, url = {https://www.ucs.org/resources/great-lakes-report-technical-appendix-climate-change-projections}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }