Projects

ClimateAP has been developed in the project "Adaptation of Asia-Pacific Forests to Climate Change" supported by The Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation (APFNet). It has been three phases, Phase I, Phase II and Phase III since it was lauched in 2011 led by the Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia.  Phase I  and Phase II have been completed, and Phase III is in progress. The foillowing are the objectives achieved and proposed within each phase.

Phase I:

• Develop high-resolution climate models and vegetation remote sensing database for the entire Asia-Pacific region;

• Develop ecological models for several major forest tree species to predict shifts in their suitable climatic niches in the future;

• Develop web tools to facilitate easy access to climate/ecological models and information. 

Phase II:

• Improve ClimateAP functionality and include time series functions for historical (1901 - present) and future years (2011-2100).

• Extend climate niche models to include 10 more important forest tree species and forest ecosystems.

• Develop economy-specific map-based tools for data access and spatial visualization of climate and ecological projections.

Phase III:

•  Summarize climate niche models and their projections for 15 key species and 4 forest ecosystems.

•  Maintain a functional and updated ClimateAP to provide superior climate data.

•  Dissemination of project outputs.  

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