On this page, you'll find a selection of collapsible panels that you can open to find climate science related to the national park or project of your choice.
Project-specific panels
These four panels contain in-depth information from various servicewide NPS climate change research projects. Each panel has links to the project homepage as well as park-specific impact briefs listed in alphabetical order.Projected Effects of Climate Change on Birds in U.S. National Parks
Birds in U.S. national parks find strong protection from many longstanding and pervasive threats, but remain highly exposed to effects of ongoing climate change. As climate in a particular place changes, suitability may worsen for some species and improve for others. These changes in climate may alter distributions of historically occurring species, creating the potential for local extirpation or new colonization. Here you'll find model-based projections of changes in climate suitability by mid-century for birds across 274 natural resource national parks under two climate change scenarios.
Learn more about this study on the project homepage
Download the overall project brief [PDF] and view the journal article
Source: Data Store Collection 8066. To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Warming Temperatures Likely to Alter Visitation Across the National Park System
Climate change will affect not only natural and cultural resources within national parks, but also visitation patterns. Where, when, and how many people visit parks is likely to change with continued warming. This research seeks to understand the temperature—visitation relationship in 340 units of the U.S. national park system; each brief can be downloaded below.
Learn more about this study on the project homepage
Download the overall project brief [PDF] and view the journal article
Source: Data Store Collection 5503. To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Climate Exposure of U.S. National Parks in a New Era of Change
Climate change is ongoing across the national park system; an overwhelming majority of parks are already at the extreme warm end of their historical conditions. This is a core finding from published research by NPS scientists. This study updates the basic climate inventories of 289 national park units; each brief can be downloaded below.
Learn more about this study on the project homepage
View the journal article and news release
Source: Data Store Collection 5502. To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Forest Vulnerability Assessment Information Available for 121 Parks
Eastern forests experienced tremendous changes in recent decades and centuries due to direct and indirect human influences. The coming decades will likely bring continued changes due to multiple global change factors including climate change and nonnative species. This research investigated potential forest change in response to climate, differences in projections of change among climate scenarios (uncertainty), and levels of nonnative biotic stressors (tree pests and invasive plants) at 121 parks in the eastern U.S.; each brief can be downloaded below.
Learn more about this study on the project homepage
Download the overall project brief [PDF] and view the journal article [PDF]
Source: Data Store Collection 5504. To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Park-specific panels
Open a panel below to view a curated list of links to assorted climate change publications and articles relevant to that park. These lists were last updated in Fall 2021, and do not necessarily include all current NPS climate-related publications. The panels below also do not currently include all units of the National Park System—more will be added in the future.For access to additional climate-related information, search for climate change in the NPS Data Store and specify the unit of your choice. Be advised that additional climate-related research may be found through third-party academic search engines, such as ResearchGate and Google Scholar.
Note: As of Spring 2023, there is a a glitch causing the panels below to not display the correct files. A fix is currently being worked on.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Source: Data Store Collection 7788 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Last updated: March 27, 2023