Climate change analyses with the FHWA Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Processing Tool
Channel: Stormwater Runoff
Date: 2022-06-22

This video is a recording of a webinar titled "Designing with Resilience Using the FHWA coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Processing Tool version 2.1" The webinar was broadcast on June 14, 2022. This stormwater webinar was done by the USGS in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Project Delivery and Environmental Review. The presenter was Daniel Sharar-Salgado of the FHWA Hydraulics and Geotechnical team. 

The Federal Highway Administration has developed the CMIP Tool to help promote resilient design. The CMIP Tool takes freely available future climate data, and quickly processes it into statistics that are common for the everyday workflow of engineers and planners. This presentation covered some basics behind climate science and resilient design, how the CMIP Tool functions, and demonstrated some example uses of the CMIP Tool. The presentation also included more detailed resources for the CMIP Tool and resilient practices in general. 

Reasons to use the CMIP tool include:
* Exposure to extreme events may be changing with time;
* To inform decision making;
* To protect the public health, safety, and welfare; and
* To plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain resilient and cost-effective infrastructure.

Information about the tool and related resources is available at:
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/sustainability/resilience/