Doug Kluck Regional Climate Services Director Kansas City, MO

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1 Climate Resilience and Information: Opportunities with Tribes and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Partners National Congress of American Indians Annual Convention (October 10, 2016) Doug Kluck Regional Climate Services Director Kansas City, MO

2 Rising Demand for Climate Information with Regional Perspectives Sustainability of Marine Ecosystems Coasts and Climate Resilience Climate Impacts on Water Resources Changes in Extremes of Weather and Climate Agriculture Energy Health Transportation

3 Also: -National Marine Fisheries Service -National Ocean Service -Oceanic & Atmospheric Research Who and Where are we?

4 Climate Extremes

5 Temperature & Precipitation Trends

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7 National Integrated Drought Information System (Drought Early Warning Systems DEWS) Early warning: provision of timely and effective information, through identified institutions, that allows individuals exposed to a hazard to take action to avoid or reduce their risk and prepare for effective response-international Strategy for Disaster Reduction Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) Informing Planning Tribal States Federal Agencies Enhancing Monitoring Drought/flood Regional Web Portal Drought.gov

8 NIDIS Tribal Focus Tribal Engagement Activities: - Missouri Basin - Four Corners - Pacific Northwest - Southern Plains

9 Missouri Basin Basin Tribal Discussion Tribes - Drought and Climate challenges - Opportunities - Tribal Colleges & Governments Lower Brule Community College, Summer 2013

10 Missouri Basin Activities: Drought Early Warning System 1) Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance (GPTWA) Climate Partnership Standing Rock, Oglala Lakota Nation, Flandreau Santee, Rosebud Sioux Tribes Two successful climate grants (w/bia, NDMC, AASC, HPRCC) Development of Water Resource Vulnerability Assessments Process and Guidebook Development of Water Resource Vulnerability Assessments to Build Tribal Resilience 2) Wind River Tribes supporting drought resilience, capacity building and planning w/doi s Climate Science Center 3) Four Kansas based tribal efforts w/bia, Haskell Indian Nations U., others Prairie Band Potawatomi, Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in KS and NE, Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas and Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska Kansas Drought Tournament Kansas Governor s Water Conference Tribal Session Where NOAA and partners have the capacity and similar goals we would like to partner with tribes on such opportunities.

11 Kansas Based Tribes Water/Climate Summary

12 Wind River: Development of a Climate and Drought Summary Providing timely climate data and information to the public for cost effective decision making since 1987

13 Wind River: Development of a Climate and Drought Summary Providing timely climate data and information to the public for cost effective decision making since 1987

14 Indigenous People s Climate Change Working Group (w/dan Wildcat, Haskell Indian Nations University)

15 toolkit.climate.gov Providing a Toolkit for Climate Resilience: Federal agencies will create a virtual climate resilience toolkit that centralizes access to data-driven resilience tools, services, and best practices, including those developed through the Climate Data Initiative. (President s Climate Action Plan, 2013) 15

16 Tribal Climate Resilience Toolkit

17 Climate change in your county: Plan with a new tool NOAA's newly updated Climate Explorer offers downloadable maps, graphs, and data tables of observed and projected temperature, precipitation and related climate variables dating back to 1950 and out to

18 National Climate Assessment (NCA) National Climate Assessment 4.0 To be published late 2018 Call for authors Tribal Chapter 13+ Agencies

19 Central Region Monthly Climate & Drought Webinars Focus where concerns are highest in real-time Early Warning System tool Flexible response to climate extremes Popular w/states, feds, tribes, private interests (4000+) Presenters: AASC, NDMC, RCC, USDA

20 Quarterly Regional Climate Summary & Outlook Midwest Pacific Region Eastern Region Western Region Alaska Region Rio Grande/Bravo Basin Gulf of Maine Region Midwest Region Caribbean Climate Missouri Basin Great Lakes

21 Monitoring the Past and Data Monitoring: State of the Climate Data (weather, climate, radar, satellite, etc )

22 Assessments: 2012 Drought State by state assessment of impacts Economic damages Causes (

23 Missouri River Assessments More variable annual runoff Upper basin Tendency to wetter side 2011 Flood to 2012 Drought ouri-river-basin/reports-assessments-andoutlooks

24 Forecasts, Outlooks and Warnings Seasonal Outlooks Daily Weather Forecasts weather.gov All Warnings and Advisories weather.gov Drought Conditions and Outlooks Drought.gov

25 Thank You Please feel free to contact me, Georgia Madrid or Linda Belton anytime for more information NOAA Contacts: Georgia Madrid: Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, EEO/Diversity Program Office Phone: (w), (c) Tribal Affiliation: Taos Pueblo/Navajo, enrolled: Taos Pueblo Doug Kluck: Regional Climate Services Director National Center for Environmental Information Phone: (w), (c) Photo Credit: Rob Wilson Photography