Joel Smith

Stratus Consulting Inc.

Stratus Consulting supports clients who are interested in understanding potential impacts of climate change and adaptation. These clients, such as NCEP are non-profit or government organizations.
NCEP is interested in better understanding potential impacts of climate change and adaptation costs. It is becoming more evident that changes in extreme events could be of greater consequence and more immediately apparent than changes in mean conditions. The PCMDI data base offers a unique opportunity to substantially expand on climate change by offering climate model based on estimates in extreme events such as precipitation intensity, heat waves, and number of dry days. Use of such data would present a substantial improvement over application of long term monthly mean changes in temperature and precipitation.