Explore Future Climate Projections

In this lesson, you'll learn about climate at both local and global levels, as well as how climate might change in the future. Overall, you'll gain understanding of major climate concepts and familiarity with real climate data.

Topics

SDG
SDG13: Climate action
Subject
Climate change
Statistics
Environment and multi-domain statistics
Keywords
climate change
climate change action

The range of future climate change depends on the concentrations of greenhouse gases that will be emitted into the atmosphere over years and decades. Climate science organizations worldwide generate future climate models based on scenarios called representative concentration pathways (RCPs). There are four RCPs, each representing a different level of greenhouse gases being added to the earth's atmosphere.

First, you'll import, symbolize, and explore baseline (historical) climate data inĀ ArcGIS Pro. Baseline climate data is important because future climate projections are presented as differences from baseline climate conditions. You'll use this baseline to evaluate several climate anomaly scenarios.

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