Table 4: Consolidated Scenario Products and Tools and "Miscellaneous"

• 4a) EOS-WEBSTER
• 4b) Stakeholder Participation

Table 4a: EOS-WEBSTER
Description	University of New Hampshire has designed a web-based data selection and subsetting tool, called EOS-WEBSTER. The first version provides users access to the historical and GCM-based monthly climate data sets prepared by NCAR for the VEMAP project. Within EOS-WEBSTER, users can create their own subsets of the data based on geographic, temporal, and some limited data value selection criteria. The system selects only the VEMAP grid-cells that fall within the geographic region of interest (e.g., lat-lon box, state, region, watershed), or in the case of a single point, the grid-cell that contains the user-defined point. For the National Assessment, there are two data formats available: a tabular ASCII version suitable for import into a spreadsheet that will contain longitude, latitude, temporal information, and data values, and a record-by-record format.
Function	To provide easily visualization and extraction of VEMAP and SEE data.
Availability	Now
References and URLs	http://eos-webster.sr.unh.edu
Technical Assistance
Direct Link to Data	http://eos-webster.sr.unh.edu

 

Table 4b: Stakeholder Participation (NCEDR)
Description	The National Center for Environmental Decision-Making (NCEDR) is providing assistance with stakeholder participation, including:  summary of the knowledge base about stakeholder participation, in the form of guidelines for planning and conducting such participation;  a draft protocol for keeping a record of stakeholder participation;  a draft statement of principles to be followed in doing stakeholder participation.  [Further assistance possible pending funding].
Function
Availability	September 18
References and URLs
Technical Assistance
Direct Link to Data	None

 
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