Guidance Overview

The Cal-Adapt: Analytics Engine facilitates access to California-specific climate data. It features tools to explore climate projections, models, historical data, global warming levels, and methodologies, all geared toward supporting informed decision making across sectors and utilizing the best available climate science.

The following resources will help data users better understand how the Analytics Engine tools can be utilized to achieve adaptation and resilience goals.

About Climate Projections and Models

An overview of climate projections and models.This section explains their generation, downscaling, validation, and incorporation of greenhouse gas emissions, along with details on historical data, global warming levels, and how the Analytics Engine tools enable users to explore these concepts.

Guidance on Using Climate Data in Decision-Making

Comprehensive guidance on how to leverage climate data to inform decision making across sectors. This section will help data users enhance resilience and sustainability by anticipating and mitigating climate impacts using a series of climate data guidelines, best practices, and specific FAQs tailored to California’s needs.

Glossary

Definitions of essential terms and concepts relevant to the Analytics Engine. This section offers detailed explanations of data products, use cases, analytical tools, and methodologies that are essential for understanding and applying climate data within the platform.

References

References for relevant data products, methodologies, and guidance. This section includes links to academic papers that describe the underlying data utilized by the Analytics Engine, as well as state-level resources that provide guidance on how to use climate data for decision making purposes.

Guidance Updates

Details on versioning and updates that have been made to the materials within this Guidance tab. Archived versions of the guidance materials are available.