Climate Tools for American Samoa

Climate Change Assessments

• Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA)
  
  • American Samoa (Climate Profile)  
    
  • Localized Sea Level Rise/Coastal Inundation “Extreme” Scenarios (for Military Installations in the Pacific Islands)  

Climate-related Data Products

• Pacific RISA (NOAA RISA Team)
  • American Samoa (country profile, including a section on climate)
  • Agroforestry in the Climate of the Marshall Islands (Dashboard)
    
  • NOAA Storm Event Database

Weather Forecasts & Climate Outlooks 

• Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS)
  
• Waves, Currents & Shoreline Impacts:
  
  • Wave Forecast (real time)
    
  • Currents forecast (Samoa)
    
  • Six-day High Level Sea Forecast
    
• Water Characteristics:
  
  • Nearshore Water Sensor Observations (water temp & salinity)   
    
  • Water Salinity Forecast
    
• Short-term Weather Model Forecast:
  
  • Air Temperature Forecast
    
  • Wind Forecast
    
  • Rain Forecast
    

Climate Summaries & Communication Tools

• American Samoa Climate Summary
  
• Pacific Islands Climate Stories (PacificIslandsClimate.org)
  
  • American Samoa Climate Story: High and Dry: Learning from the 1997-1998 El Niño’s effects on water resources in American Samoa
    
• Hawaii and USAPI Climate Summary
  
  • Drought Information Statement (Guam)
    
• Pacific ENSO Update Quarterly Climate Newsletter (16p):
  
• ENSO Quick Look - El Niño/La Niña forecasts (including uncertainty)
  
• PEAC Seasonal Rainfall Forecast
  
• Maps of Sea level Rise
  
• NOAA Climate Summary
  
  • Climate Summary
    
  • Active Watches and Warnings
    
• Weather Models WRF-ARW at University of Hawaii - short-term predictions
  
  • Hawaii
    
  • Marianas Islands and American Samoa  
    
• Pacific Islands Climate Education Partnership (PCEP):
  
  • Climate Change Educational Booklet (17 pages)  
    
  • American Samoa (main profile)
    
• American Samoa EPA -  Climate Change
  
• PREL/PECP Pacific Climate Booklets and Info Briefs
  
  • Climate Change in CNMI
    
  • Pacific Climate Variability
    
• NCA Reports
  
  • Hawaii and the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands
    
• Pacific RISA“Climate Matters Documoments”
  
• Climate Matters for Ranchers in Hawaii (3:10m)
  

Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)

• FAO/GACSA: Climate Smart Agriculture 101
  
• PIAAI - Climate Smart Agriculture Fact sheet (coming soon)
  
• Agroforests: Growing Resilient Communities (PREL/PCEP Publication)
  
• Yap Extension Climate-Smart Agriculture Brochure
  
• AgroClimate (Continental US focus)