Regional Climate Change Effects: Useful Information for Transportation Agencies

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Office of Planning, Environment and Realty
Office of Infrastructure
Federal Highway Administration, U.S. DOT

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May 10, 2010

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Acknowledgments

FHWA would like to thank the individuals listed below who provided guidance and feedback on the climate effects information included in this report. Their insights and information were critical to ensuring the scientific credibility of the data presented here. FHWA looks forward to continued dialogue regarding the nature of the climate change data that will be most useful to transportation practitioners in their efforts to adapt the transportation system to a changing climate.

Virginia R. Burkett, U.S. Geological Survey
Arthur T. Degaetano, Cornell University
Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University
David H. Levinson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
A. David McGuire, U.S. Geological Survey, University of Alaska
Philip W. Mote, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute
Thomas C. Peterson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Kelly T. Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center
David A. Robinson, Rutgers University, New Jersey
E. Robert Thieler, U.S. Geological Survey
Michael F. Wehner, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Donald J. Wuebbles, University of Illinois

FHWA would further like to thank Thomas C. Peterson, Jay H. Lawrimore, Michael Wehner, and Katharine Hayhoe for providing USGCRP climate projection data and figures that are used extensively in this report. Though every effort was made to ensure accuracy, FHWA and the authors are responsible for the information in this report.

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