Abstract

Assessing climate change risks to transportation using GIS
Track: Climate Change
Authors: Jon Williams

Assessing the risk that climate change poses to various sectors is an issue of ever-increasing importance. Information from climate models needs to be in a format that is useful & practical for decision makers. It is the author�s view that GIS is the best tool for this need. This project explores assessing risk to the transportation sector in West Texas from flooding & dust storms using data in GIS from climate & extreme event modeling. The project uses the SimCLIM ArcGIS add-in & NCAR data.