Integrating federal research and solutions for climate and global change

National Climate Assessment

The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is being conducted under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which requires a report to the President and the Congress that evaluates, integ...

Strategic Planning

Every 10 years, the USGCRP must develop a new Strategic Plan, which is used to guide the research and coordinating activities of the program for the following decade.  The next Stra...

Extreme Weather

Changes in extreme weather and climate events have significant impacts and are among the most serious challenges to society in coping with a changing climate. Many extremes and their associated ...

Adaptation Science

Recently, the Council on Environmental Quality, in partnership with the Office of Science and Technology Policy and NOAA issued a report (http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives...

Fundamental Research

The thirteen agencies of USGCRP collect some of the world's most cutting-edge data on climate and global change.  This basic process research that emerges from the USGCRP agencies provides the ...