What's New

Drought and Climate in Arizona: Top Ten Questions and Answers [April 26, 2004]
This 23-page report outlines several questions frequently asked of CLIMAS researchers about Arizona's longterm drought and climate. It is available in pdf format. [736K]

CLIMAS Update April 2004, Vol. 7 No. 1. Newsletter available in pdf. [308 KB]

Snow Mapping Pages [March 9, 2004]
These pages provide an overview of research undertaken by CLIMAS researchers to derive forecasts using hydrologic models that consider the spatial variability of snowpack. Researchers are developing spatially distributed snow water equivalent products that can give estimates of future runoff almost as quickly as snow cover conditions change.

Southwest Climate Outlook April 2004 [April 22, 2004]

Monthly Climate Information Packets [April 22, 2004]
PDF versions of information found in our Southwest Climate Outlook.

NSAW Proceedings [February 11, 2004]
The 2004 National Seasonal Assessment Workshop: Eastern and Southern States meeting was an important step in a long-term process to develop tools for proactive fire management. The workshop, held January 27-29, 2004, brought together climatologists, predictive service units, and fire managers from across the eastern half of the country to produce seasonal fire outlook reports. [pdf, 438 KB]

Funding Opportunities Database [January 23, 2004]
ISPE periodically researches sources of grant money, fellowships, awards, and other funding opportunities from both within the University of Arizona community and outside sources.

Events and Seminars Database [January 16, 2004]
ISPE provides a list of global-change related seminars to help foster interdisciplinary interaction between faculty, students, and departments across campus. The list includes both ISPE-events and those sponsored by our affiliated departments.

Graduate Research Associates Directory [January 15, 2004]
The directory is an alphabetical list of graduate students that are working on CLIMAS research projects. Each listing includes a short biography and contact information that is updated periodically.

ISPE Travel Awards [January 6, 2004]
Provides up to $500 in funding for graduate students to travel to meetings, conferences, or symposia where they will present their research.

 

NSAW Proceedings [November 20, 2003]
The first annual National Seasonal Assessment Workshop, held February 25-28, 2003, brought together climatologists, predictive service units, and fire managers from across the country to produce seasonal fire outlook reports. [pdf file, 1.2 MB]

Reconstructing Past Climate in the Southwest [October 15, 2003]
These pages provide an overview of work completed by CLIMAS associates in the UA's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research to reconstruct cool-season precipitation from tree-ring records in Arizona and New Mexico.

Cool-season Precipitation Data [October 15, 2003]
This product provides both reconstructed and instrumental cool-season precipitation data for climate divisions in Arizona and New Mexico

Climate and Urban Water Providers in Arizona: An Analysis of Vulnerability Perceptions and Climate Information [August 20, 2003]
Rebecca H. Carter and Barbara J. Morehouse, CLIMAS Report Series CL1-03

Climate Vulnerability Mapping of the Southwest [July 28, 2003]
This factsheet provides an overview of CLIMAS' work to create vulnerability maps that incorporate ethnographic and socioeconomic data into a spatial framework. [pdf file, 1.8 MB]