SCIPP’s Simple Planning Tool (SPT) for Oklahoma Climate Hazards received the Oklahoma Chapter of the American Planning Association’s (APA) 2019 award for Outstanding Public Outreach, Program, Project, Tool, or Community Initiative. The award category emphasizes results and demonstrates how innovative and state-of-the-art planning methods and practices help create communities of lasting value. Jurors from Oklahoma, […]
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SCIPP has released a new report titled The Social and Scientific Misconception of Floodplains: An Integrated Look into the Re-evaluation of the “100-year” and “500-year” Flood Determinants. The report can be found here. The work, conducted by McKenzie Roberts, was developed for her capstone project in the University of Oklahoma’s Department of Geography and Environmental
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SCIPP Awarded Three More Years of Funding The University of Oklahoma-led Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program, a multi—institutional stakeholder driven research team, is the recipient of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant totaling $2.3 million over three years. SCIPP was established in 2008 to help south central U.S. communities build resilience to weather and
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The Arkansas and Oklahoma Simple Planning Tools have been updated to versions 1.5 and include the following revisions: Arkansas: Added: The NOAA Atlas 14 Precipitation Frequency Data Server tool to the Heavy Rainfall and Flooding section. Appendix C was updated to include NCA4 Volume II: Impacts, Risks and Adaptation in the U.S. (2018). Oklahoma: Added:
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Oklahoma Drought Plan Advisory Meeting: Summary Report In June 2018, the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, with the support of SCIPP and NIDIS, hosted an Oklahoma Drought Plan Advisory Meeting. The aim of the meeting was to discuss strategies for updating the 1997 Oklahoma Drought Response Plan. In attendance were representatives from various state agencies and sectors.
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Recently, 13 USFederal agencies released the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume II, Climate Change Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States. The National Climate Assessment is the most comprehensive, authoritative assessment of the effects of climate change on the US economy and communities. Included in the NCA4 is an assessment of climate variability
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The Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) is pleased to announce a new tool that will assist planners and emergency managers across the state of Arkansas with assessing their long-term climate risks. It is called the Simple Planning Tool for Arkansas Climate Hazards. In addition to the previous hyperlink, the tool is also available by
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The Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) is pleased to announce a new tool that will assist planners and emergency managers across the state of Oklahoma with assessing their long-term climate risks. It is called the Simple Planning Tool for Oklahoma Climate Hazards. In addition to the previous hyperlink, the tool is also available by
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SCIPP partnered with two Department of Energy entities – the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to develop a climate change resilience plan for the SPR. The SPR is the world’s largest emergency supply of crude oil with a capacity of 727 million barrels.Current holdings consist of around 650 million
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Global climate projections provide information that can motivate action on a national or regional scale but do not necessarily provide the amount of detail that is useful at a local level or information that is relevant to a community. Historically, climate projection analyses have been based on thresholds that were determined by scientists. However, as
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