Guidance Updates

Guidance, Version 1.5

June 26, 2025

• How should a user use reference periods in the Analytics Engine?

Guidance, Version 1.4

May 30, 2025

• How should a user choose between Global Warming Levels and a time-based approach to planning?
• New Glossary terms:
  Change signal
  Climatology
  Cumulative distribution function (CDF)

Guidance, Version 1.3

March 18, 2025

• Updated answer to "The Analytics Engine hosts two types of downscaled datasets: WRF and LOCA2-Hybrid. Which dataset is most appropriate for a user's application/context?"

Guidance, Version 1.2

October 28, 2024

• Additional Reference
  • "Memorandum on Generaul Use Projections (August 2024)"

Guidance, Version 1.1

September 30, 2024

• Additional References
  • New “Resources for Adaptation Planning” section
• Additional Glossary terms
  • Cascading event
  • Climate sensitivity
  • Compound event
  • Ensemble member
  • Generalized Pareto distribution
  • Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution
  • Global Climate Model (GCM)
  • Goodness of fit
  • Gumbel distribution
  • Multivariate event
  • Pearson Type III distribution
  • Projection
  • Return period
  • Return probability
  • Return value
  • Simulation
  • Weibull distribution
  • Working group

Guidance, Version 1.0

July 22, 2024

• About Climate Projections and Models
• Guidance on Using Climate Data in Decision Making
• Glossary
• References
• Guidance Updates