Assessments
PSL scientists contribute to local, regional, national, and international assessment reports on causes of global to regional climate trends and extreme events. These reports provide policy and decision makers with best available information for risk management and adaptation decisions in agriculture, water supply, natural resources, health, energy, emergency management, and other sectors.
National and International Assessments
- Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective
- State of the Climate Reports
- U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Reports
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports
- UN 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR) on Disaster Risk Reduction
- WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessments of Ozone
Regional, State, and Local Assessments
- Flash Drought: Lessons Learned from the 2017 Drought Across the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies (2019)
- The Causes, Predictability, and Historical Context of the 2017 U.S. Northern Great Plains Drought (2019)
- Colorado – New Mexico Regional Extreme Precipitation Study (2018)
- Future Snow Persistence in Rocky Mountain and Glacier National Parks (2017)
- Causes for Hydrologic Extremes in the Upper Missouri River Basin (2016)
- The Making of an Extreme Event: Putting the Pieces Together (2014)
- Climate and Predictability of the 2011-14 California Drought (2014)
- Climate Change in Colorado (2014)
- Seasonal Precipitation Forecasts Over the Missouri River Basin (2014)
- Understanding and Explaining Climate Extremes in the Missouri River Basin Associated with the 2011 Flooding (2013)
- An Interpretation of the Origins of the 2012 Central Great Plains Drought (2013)
- Rapid-Response Climate Assessment to Support the FWS Status Review of the American Pika (2010)
- Climate Change in Colorado (2008)