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Climate Change Assessment for Water Resources Region 03 South Atlantic -Gulf <br />Water Resources Region 03: South Atlantic -Gulf Region <br />1. Introduction <br />U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USAGE) staff are increasingly considering potential climate <br />change impacts when undertaking long -term planning, setting priorities, and making decisions <br />that affect resources, programs, policies, and operations, consistent with the 2011 and 2014 <br />policy statements on climate change adaptation by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil <br />Works, the USACE Climate Change Adaptation Plans, and agency policy and guidance. USACE <br />is undertaking its climate change preparedness and resilience planning and implementation in <br />consultation with internal and external experts using the best available — and actionable — climate <br />science and climate change information. This report represents one component of actionable <br />science, in the form of concise and broadly- accessible summaries of the current science with <br />specific attention to USACE missions and operations. This report is part of a series of twenty one <br />(21) regional climate syntheses prepared by the USACE under the leadership of the Response to <br />Climate Change Program at the scale of 2 -digit U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Hydrologic <br />Unit Codes (HUC) across the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. The <br />twenty one Water Resources Regions included in this series of reports is shown in Figure 1.1 <br />along with USACE division boundaries. Each of these regional reports summarizes observed and <br />projected climate and hydrological patterns cited in reputable peer- reviewed literature and <br />authoritative national and regional reports, and characterizes climate threats to USACE business <br />lines. They also provide context and linkage to other agency resources for climate resilience <br />planning, such as sea level change calculation and coastal risk reduction resources, downscaled <br />climate data for subregions, and watershed vulnerability assessment tools. <br />This report focuses on Water Resources Region 03, the South Atlantic -Gulf, the boundaries for <br />which are shown in Figure 1.2. The Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, Atlanta, <br />and Mobile USACE districts and a relatively small section of the Mississippi Valley Division are <br />within the region. <br />USACE Institute for Water Resources 3 January 9, 2015 <br />