Climate Science Support Platform (CSSP)

The Climate Science Support Platform (CSSP) is a network of NC CASC scientists, partners and stakeholders that provides climate science support to the NC CASC community of scientists and partners through collaborative research and integration of diverse science expertise.

How does the CSSP work?

CSSP facilitates iterative engagement with the NC CASC community of scientists and stakeholders to increase understanding of climate science and to identify stakeholders’ climate science needs. This process includes:

  • Direct interactions with stakeholders
  • Specific project-based interactions
  • Science calls of the CSSP network
  • Science webinars that bring together researchers and managers

CSSP produces information and tools based on identified needs across a wide range of stakeholders and projects. This includes:

  • Developing and providing downscaled climate data
  • Synthesizing project specific climate information 
  • Developing workflows to access climate data or to derive a specific climate metric at the appropriate scale
  • Assessing usability of developed information and tools through direct stakeholder engagement
  • Developing resource briefs and regional summaries 

CSSP is also doing foundational and applied research in understanding ecological drought processes and risk under a changing climate. These include:

  • Collaborations with NOAA’s Physical Climate Laboratory for developing and maintaining drought indices 
  • Development of the Drought Index Portal (DrIP) to provide easy access and ability to generate and compare different drought indices for a selected location in the contiguous United States
  • Ecological drought research on changing drought risk during the 21st century and how transformational drought processes could manifest within the NC CASC region 

Select stakeholders with whom CSSP has had significant interactions include:

Select projects and efforts supported by CSSP include:

Questions about the CSSP? Please contact: 

Imtiaz Rangwala, imtiaz.rangwala@colorado.edu

Jane Wolken, jane.wolken@colorado.edu

R-Shiny Apps for Large-Scale Drivers of Regional Precipitation

Tools Developed in Collaboration with ClimateToolbox.org