Improving Societal Welfare in the Context of Changing Weather and Climate

The Climate Science and Application Program (CSAP) is a new endeavor at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. CSAP is leading and coordinating multidisciplinary activities linking an active group of physical and social scientists. CSAP scientists conduct interdisciplinary research on social, economic, and political activities related to climate at local, regional and global scales. They address adaptation to climate change by generating scenarios of projected climate change, developing tools and methods for analyzing current and future vulnerability, and conducting integrated analyses of climate change impacts and adaptation. Involving various stakeholders and users of climate information in research activities is important to the work of CSAP to do science that serves society.

CSAP generates scenarios of projected climate change, develops tools and methods for analyzing current and future vulnerability, and conducts integrated analyses of climate change impacts and adaptation.

Climate Science and Applications Program Projects

Water Resources and Climate

Climate Change Impacts on Water
Water Law and Institutions
Water Banking and Drought Mitigation

Weather, Climate and Health

Dengue in Mexico
Plague in Uganda
Modeling of Metropolitan Extreme Heat Risk (SIMMER)
Meningitis in Ghana
Interfacing Water, Climate, and Society: A Resource List

Institutional Aspects of Vulnerability and Adaptation

Resilient and Sustainable Cities

Drivers of cities' emissions trajectories
Urban vulnerability and resilience
Urban mitigation and adaptation responses

Geographic Information Systems

GIS program
GIS Climate Change
Modeling of Metropolitan Extreme Heat Risk (SIMMER)

CSAP Director

• BUJA, Lawrence | CSAP DIRECTOR | ph: 1330 | email: southern

Primary Contacts

• AMMANN, Caspar | PROJ SCIENTIST II | ph: 1705 | email: ammann
• BOEHNERT, Jennifer | GIS COORDINATOR | ph: 2858 | email: boehnert
• DICKINSON, Katie | POST-DOC | ph: 2758 | email: katied
• HAYDEN, Mary | SCIENTIST I | ph: 8116 | email: mhayden
• HUGHES, Sarah | POST-DOC | ph: 2872 | email: shughes
• MILLER, Kathy | SCIENTIST III | ph: 8115 | email: kathleen
• MONAGHAN, Andy | SCIENTIST II | ph: 8424 | email: monaghan
• ROMERO-LANKAO, Paty | SCIENTIST III | ph: 8104 | email: prlankao
• SAMPSON, Kevin | ASSOC SCIENTIST II | ph: 8121 | email: ksampson
• WILHELMI, Olga | PROJ SCIENTIST II | ph: 8126 | email: olgaw