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The Climate Change Exchange Network (CAKE) is a joint project of Island Press and EcoAdapt intended to <br />help build an innovative community of practice around climate change adaptation issues for natural systems. <br />http: / /www.cakex.org/ <br />Climate Data <br />NOAAs National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) provides access to its geospatial data. The monitoring <br />section includes U.S. and global reports, research, maps, datasets, and indices related to climate monitoring. <br />httl2://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html <br />The GeoData Portal includes a range of climatic datasets and provides an entry point to the NCDC Data <br />Discovery Map, which allows users to search regions, states, cities, places, and zip codes for climatological <br />data, surface data, radar imagery, and other data products. http : / /gis.ncdc.noaa.gov /geol2ortal/ <br />Headquartered at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, the Global Climate <br />Observing System (GCOS) provides data, reports, and event listings related to monitoring the climate <br />system; detecting and attributing climate change; assessing impacts of, and supporting adaptation to climate <br />variability and change; application to national economic development; and research to support modeling and <br />prediction of the climate system. http: / /www.wmo.int /pages /grog /gcos /index.phl2?name= networks <br />The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) is a joint undertaking of the World Meteorological Organi- <br />zation (WMO), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the United Nations Education- <br />al Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) <br />and the International Council for Science (ICSU) that provides information on the total climate system, <br />involving a multidisciplinary range of physical, chemical and biological properties, and atmospheric, oceanic, <br />hydrological, cryospheric and terrestrial processes. http: / /www.wmo.int /pages /prog/gcos/ <br />The Global Observing Systems Information Center (GOSIC) provides access to data, metadata and infor- <br />mation from GCOS and partner observing systems. An overview of all GCOS- relevant network components <br />and systems can be found at http: / /Vosic.org <br />Downscaled and Regional Climate Change Models <br />The USGS Southeast Regional Assessment Product (SERAP) is developing regionally downscaled climate <br />projections and landscape change datasets that can be used to project the likely changes to the Southeast's <br />climate and ecosystems. These regional models can be used to identify the driving factors of local climate <br />changes and the potential impact on southeastern natural resources. In addition, the USGS will integrate <br />urbanization and vegetation models with these regional climate models to assess how changes will impact <br />priority species. A web -based data platform for sharing and disseminating data and results from SERAP is <br />currently being created. http: / /serap.er.usgs.gov/ <br />166 Appendix A <br />