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National Climate Change Viewer

The USGS National Climate Change Viewer (NCCV) is a web application for visualizing climate projections from the Climate Model Intercomparison Program (CMIP) that have been statistically downscaled to high spatial resolution for the conterminous United States. NCCV allows users to visualize past and projected changes in climate and water balance for any state, county and USGS Hydrologic Unit (HUC) at levels 2,4, and 8.

Inputs

State; county; month; variable (temperature, precipitation, soil storage...); climate model; scenario; climatology period; units

Outputs

View of past or projected changes in climate and water balance any state, county and USGS Hydrologic Unit (HUC).

Release Notes

Suggested to use the most current CMIP6 version of the viewer unless you need legacy data, CMIP5 is available. 

Format:

Web

Audience:

Researcher, Extension, Land Manager

Time Investment:

Low

Release/Version:

CMIP6

Spatial Scale:

County

Time Scale:

User-defined

Tool Developers:

United States Geological Survey (USGS)