Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA)
The Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA) is a collaboration between the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and a team of more than fifty independent experts to develop and communicate a new assessment of climate change, impacts on climate-sensitive sectors, and solutions in the northeastern United States. Launched in May, 2005, the goal of the assessment is to combine state-of-the-art analyses with effective outreach to provide policymakers, opinion leaders, and the public with the best available science upon which to base informed choices about climate change mitigation and adaptation.
A web-based database 'Northeast Climate Data' can be accessed from the website. This database provides registered users with free access to most of the climate data generated for the NECIA project, including projected changes this century in temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, snow cover, and more that can be expected in the Northeast under higher and lower emission scenarios.
Related Organizations:
Related Resources:
- Climate Change in Pennsylvania: Impacts and Solutions for the Keystone State
- The Impacts of Climate Change on Connecticut Agriculture, Infrastructure, Natural Resources and Public Health
- Potential Climate Change Impacts on Marine Resources of the Northeastern United States
- Coastal Flooding in the Northeast United States Due to Climate Change
- Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast: Science, Impacts, and Solutions
