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This collection contains outputs from the Pacific-Australia Climate Change Science and Adaptation Planning (PACCSAP) programme.

The PACCSAP programme (2011-2015) supported 14 Pacific Island countries to build resilience to current and future climate risks through improved science and data, increased awareness of climate change and its impacts, and better adaptation planning. It delivered a range of successful projects with country governments, regional organisations and other development partners.

The programme responded to the serious and immediate challenges Pacific Islands face from the impacts of climate change, and the need for climate data and information in the Pacific region. It built on the success of the earlier Pacific Adaptation Strategy Assistance Program (PASAP) and Pacific Climate Change Science Program (PCCSP), and ran concurrently with the East Timor Climate Change Science Program.

PACCSAP was implemented by the Australian Department of the Environment in partnership with CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). It was funded from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) aid budget.

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Pacific Climate Change Science Program (PCCSP) & Pacific-Australia Climate Change Science and Adaptation Planning (PACCSAP) Science Component Bibliography (2009-2015): A bibliography which lists scientific outputs from the PCCSP and PACCSAP Programmes Science Components. Includes details of journal articles, books, book chapters, conference presentations and reports.
Climate Change in the Pacific: Scientific Assessment and New Research: This report is a rigorously researched, peer-reviewed scientific assessment of the climate of the western Pacific region. It builds on the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and represents a comprehensive resource on the climate of the Pacific.
Climate Variability, Extremes and Change in the Western Tropical Pacific: New Science and Updated Country Reports: This report, a major output of the PACCSAP Programme, documents the latest scientific understanding of large-scale climate processes, observations, extremes and projections in the western tropical Pacific.
Climate in the Pacific: a regional summary of new science and management tools: Provides a summary of the science and tools developed through the Pacific-Australia Climate Change Science and Adaptation Planning (PACCSAP) program, and the Pacific Climate Change Science Program (PCCSP) prior to that, in an easily accessible and largely non-technical format.
Cloud Nasara (Klaod Nasara; Nasara de Nuages): An animation and toolkit in three languages (Bislama, English and French) which raises awareness of the science and impacts of El Niño and La Niña in Vanuatu, and encourages the people of Vanuatu to take early action in preparing for these extreme events.
The Pacific Adventures of the Climate Crab: An animation and toolkit which raises awareness of the science and impacts of El Niño and La Niña and encourages Pacific Islanders to take early action in preparing for these extreme events.
Pacific Climate Change Science Training Module: A step-by-step training guide and country-specific presentations for facilitating a one-day workshop on understanding climate change science, targeted at audiences in the Pacific island region and Timor-Leste.
Climate variability and climate change in the western tropical Pacific [fact sheet]: A fact sheet explaining climate variability and climate change in the western tropical Pacific. One of a series of fact sheets developed by the PACCSAP Program.
Climate extremes in the western tropical Pacific [fact sheet]: A fact sheet explaining climate extremes in the western tropical Pacific. One of a series of fact sheets developed by the PACCSAP Program.
Large-scale climate features in the western tropical Pacific [fact sheet]: A fact sheet explaining large-scale climate features in the western tropical Pacific. One of a series of fact sheets developed by the PACCSAP Program.
Sea-level rise in the western tropical Pacific [fact sheet]: A fact sheet explaining sea-level rise in the western tropical Pacific. One of a series of fact sheets developed by the PACCSAP Program.
Ocean acidification in the western tropical Pacific [fact sheet]: A fact sheet explaining ocean acidification in the western tropical Pacific. One of a series of fact sheets developed by the PACCSAP Program.
Pacific Climate Change Data Portal: The Pacific Climate Change Data portal is a web-based tool that provides access to historical climate trends and basic climate information from observation sites across the Pacific Islands and East Timor. It allows quick comparisons across international borders, and puts changes at individual sites into a broader "whole of the Pacific" perspective.
Southern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Data Portal: The Southern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Data Portal improves knowledge of past tropical cyclone activity in the Pacific Islands and East Timor by plotting tracks of cyclones in the South Pacific from 1969, allowing users to see the characteristics and paths of past tropical cyclone events.
Pacific Climate Futures Version 2 (decision support tool): Pacific Climate Futures Version 2.0 is a free web-based climate impacts decision-support tool. It provides national and some sub-national climate projections for East Timor and 14 Pacific countries.
Seasonal Prediction of Extreme Ocean Temperatures/Coral Bleaching (forecast tool): A web-based tool that provides seasonal forecasts of ocean temperature and coral bleaching risk in the Pacific.
Seasonal Prediction of Sea level Anomalies in the Western Pacific and East Timor (forecast tool): Seasonal prediction of sea level anomalies in the Western Pacific is focused on the development and verification of seasonal forecasts for sea level for Pacific Partner Countries. These forecasts are generated using the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's Predictive Ocean-Atmosphere Model for Australia (POAMA).
Current and future storm tide risks for Samoa: Current and future storm tide risk study for Samoa. These risks are quantified by estimating 20, 50 and 100 year maximum storm tide height return intervals under a variety of climate conditions and sea levels using a combined statistical/dynamical method.
Current and future storm tide risks for Fiji: Current and future storm tide risk study for Fiji. These risks are quantified by estimating 20, 50 and 100, 500, 1000 year maximum storm tide height return intervals under a variety of climate conditions and sea levels using a combined statistical/dynamical method.
Current and future climate of the Cook Islands: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in the Cook Islands, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Current and future climate of the Federated States of Micronesia: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in the Federated States of Micronesia, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Current and future climate of the Fiji Islands: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in the Fiji Islands, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Current and future climate of Kiribati: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in Kiribati, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Current and future climate of the Marshall Islands: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in the Marshall Islands, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Current and future climate of Nauru: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in Nauru, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Current and future climate of Niue: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in Niue, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Current and future climate of Palau: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in Palau, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Current and future climate of Papua New Guinea: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in Papua New Guinea, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Current and future climate of Samoa: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in Samoa, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Current and future climate of the Solomon Islands: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in the Solomon Islands, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Current and future climate of Timor-Leste: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in Timor-Leste, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Current and future climate of Tonga: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in Tonga, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Current and future climate of Tuvalu: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in Tuvalu, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Current and future climate of Vanuatu: This brochure summarises the current and expected future climate in Vanuatu, based on the latest emissions scenarios and climate models.
Empirical indices of tropical cyclone genesis for CMIP5 models: Three empirically-derived indices of tropical cyclone genesis - Genesis Potential Index (labelled in files as "gpi"), Murakami-GPI ("GPIM") and Tippett Index ("TCGI") - have been applied to monthly outputs of a suite of CMIP5 models.
CMIP5 global climate model outputs and derived outputs, comprising: Data generated to produce PACCSAP reports; data generated to produce NRM reports; data generated to produce ACCSP reports.: Processed global climate model outputs and derived analysis from ‘historical’ and RCP simulations from CMIP5 models.
CMIP5 Climatologies: Historic and future 20-year climatologies of CMIP5 data on native model grid for annual, seasonal and monthly seasons. Up to 40 models from the CMIP5 archive are available.
Tropical cyclone tracks found using the CSIRO Direct Detection scheme on CMIP5 model outputs: ASCII text files listing each tropical cyclone detected within output of a suite of CMIP5 models for the Pacific region contained by latitudes 20N to 40S, and longitudes 135E to 150W; and Global images of tropical cyclone densities derived from these detections, presented as either days per year or storms per year for a 5 x 5 degree longitude/latitude grid.
Projections of coral bleaching risk in the Western Pacific under different levels sea surface temperature increases: The collection contains Degree heating week (DHW) time series. The matrix has 4 dimensions : longitude, latitude, time-window and warming).
Historical sea level reconstruction - monthly time series, 1950-2009 - 1 degree resolution: Historical sea level reconstruction by merging tide gauge measurements with altimeter measurements, presented in monthly time steps between January 1950 and December 2009
CAWCR Wave Hindcast extension June 2013 - July 2014: Ocean wave hindcast, using the WaveWatch III v4.18 wave model forced with NCEP CFSv2 hourly winds and daily sea ice, June 2013 - July 2014.
CAWCR Global wind-wave 21st century climate projections: Archived output from wave climate simulations carried out using a 1 degree global implementation of WaveWatch III (v3.14).
CAWCR wave hindcast extension Jan 2011 - May 2013: Ocean wave hindcast, using the WaveWatch III v4.08 wave model forced with NCEP CFSv2 hourly winds and daily sea ice, January 2011 - May 2013.
CAWCR Wave Hindcast 1979-2010: Ocean wave hindcast, using the WaveWatch III v4.08 wave model forced with NCEP CFSR hourly winds and daily sea ice, 1979-2010.
Hybrid downscaled wave climate of Funafuti, Tuvalu: High-resolution gridded wave parameters (significant wave height, peak period, peak direction, wave dissipation, etc.) for the entire atoll of Funafuti.
Satellite-derived bathymetry of Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu: High-resolution visible satellite imagery (Quickbird) was acquired and a physics-based model inversion process used to estimate water column depth.
Regional sea level projection - annual time series, 2006-2090 - 0.5 degree resolution: Sea level projections based on the CMIP5 climate models and the IPCC AR5 under 4 RCP scenarios for the western tropical Pacific. The data are presented in annual time steps between 2006 and 2090.
Water Level Climatologies for Pacific Island Countries: Components of total hourly sea level signal, monthly exceedance probabilities, and gridded tides and sea level anomaly.
Food security in the Solomon Islands: This Factsheet is a summary of methods and results from a food security cost benefit analysis in Solomon Islands.
Critical infrastructure in Vanuatu: This Factsheet is a summary of transport infrastructure methods and results from a cost benefit analysis in Vanuatu.
Pacific Adaptation Scenarios (Costs and Benefits): Water security in Tuvalu - Technical report: Comprehensive technical report with findings from water security cost benefit analysis (CBA) in Tuvalu. Also includes information on a water supply-demand model, CBA model and groundwater stocktake for Vaitupu.
Pacific Adaptation Scenarios (Costs and Benefits): Water security in Tuvalu - Summary report: A summary for policy-makers examining the application of cost benefit analysis of water security options in Tuvalu, considering the impacts of climate change.
Water security in Tuvalu: assessing costs and benefits: Booklet for policy-makers outlining the steps involved in application of cost benefit analysis for water security in Tuvalu and options going forward.
Water security decision-making framework: a five-step process to identify water security investments that deliver the greatest benefit at the lowest cost [Water security in Tuvalu: assessing costs and benefits framework]: Water Security Decision-Making Framework Poster.
Water security options in Funafuti: results from a cost benefit analysis: This poster shows the results of a water security cost benefit analysis project in Tuvalu.
Water security in Tuvalu: Water supply-demand model: A water supply-demand model was used to assess shortfalls in water supply in Tuvalu (Funafuti and Vaitupu) relative to water consumption targets under different rainfall scenarios. A number of datasets are contained within the model, notably water supply and demand data and rainfall data.
Water security in Tuvalu: Cost Benefit Analysis model: Model of cost and benefit options to improve water security in Tuvalu. The cost-benefit analysis tool works by identifying, comparing and aggregating the costs and benefits of each water security portfolio
Pacific Media and Climate Change Toolkit - Activities Manual: Tool to assist Pacific media improve newsrooms' coverage of climate change and related issues
Pacific Media and Climate Change Toolkit - Factsheets. What causes climate change? Climate change mitigation. Climate change and waste. Climate change and ecosystem based adaptation.: Factsheets (4) to supplement information and exercises in the Pacific Media and Climate Change Toolkit - Activities Manual, a resource that assists Pacific media improve newsrooms' coverage of change and related issues.
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' - Samoa Maluafou College - Action Against Climate Change: The Importance of Agroforestry in Samoa (video): Video (Samoan with English subtitles)- Students from Maluafou College in Apia tell their story on how agroforestry can help Samoa to take Action Against Climate Change.
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' - Samoa Maluafou College - Organics and Climate Change flashmob (video): Video - students flashmob in central Apia to show the importance of organic agriculture in the face of climate change
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' Samoa Maluafou College - Rivers and Water Management (audio): Audio (English) – explores climate change impacts on local water resources and management responses
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' Samoa Leifi’ifi College - Minimize the climatic and human impacts on drinking water (audio): Audio (English) – explores the ways that people in Samoa can minimize the climatic and human impacts on drinking water.
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' - Samoa - The Children are our Future - Gender and Climate change issues (video): Video (English and Samoan with English subtitles) - Students from Loto Taumafai school in Samoa help explain how men, women and different organisations can work together to take Action Against Climate Change.
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' - Tuvalu - Water Scarcity (video): Video (English) – Water scarcity is an important issue for Tuvalu with climate change impacts. Youth voices here talk about this key issue for Tuvalu’s future.
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' - Tuvalu: Water and Drought (video): Video (English) - Climate change in Tuvalu is a serious issue. This video is presented by young people and explores how climate change is affecting drought and access to water.
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' - Vanuatu Central School - Gender (video): Video (Bislama with English subtitles) - Men and women are affected differently by climate change. This drama from Vanuatu shows how men and women sometimes think differently, and how we can find solutions to work together to take Action Against Climate Change
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' - Vanuatu Central School - Water Management (audio): Audio - Vanuatu central school students created a radio presentation discussing climate change and how this is affecting the Pacific region. The students interview residents of two small villages about the how they are reliant on the river for clean water and how this impacts their lives. Bislama version and English version available.
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' - Vanuatu Lycée College - Coastal Erosion in Vanuatu (video): Video (in English and Bislama) - Coastal erosion is a problem for islands in the Pacific. The students from Vanuatu Lycee College explain why climate change is part of that problem and how people can take action against it.
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' - Vanuatu Lycée College - Disaster Risk Reduction and Disabilities (video): Video (Bislama with English subtitles) – this video puts the focus on how and why people living with a disability must be included in disaster planning and response in Vanuatu.
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' - Tuvalu - Water and Climate Change: Relocation is Not an Option (Video): Video (English) - The Prime Minister of Tuvalu speaks about the importance of adaptation for survival in Tuvalucom
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' - Pacific Islands - Trees and our Youth (video): Video (English) - Ashneel Singh talks about Sustainable Forestry and how deforestation impacts on the climate.
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' - Pacific Islands - Climate Education is all our Responsibility (video): Video (English) - this video talks about the importance of education on climate change.
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' - Pacific Islands - My food, my life (video): Video (English and English subtitles) - this video talks about the importance of agriculture and how climate change impacts on the availability of food and resources.
Action Against Climate Change (A2C2) - youth generated content 'voices of youth' - Pacific Islands - Pacific Women Against Climate Change (video): Video (English, Bislama, English subtitles) - this video explains the impacts of climate change and how it affects Pacific women in comparison to others.
Learning about climate change the Pacific way - a visual guide - Fiji: The visual guide has 16 colourful illustrated pictures showing the water cycle, Pacific and global climate, causes of climate change, the changing climate of Fiji, the effects of weather extremes and mitigation and adaptation in a town and in gardening, forestry and fishing.
Learning about climate change the Pacific way - a guide for Pacific teachers - Fiji: This teachers' guide presents This teachers' guide presents learning outcomes, background information and hands-on teaching activities cover the water cycle, Pacific and global climate, causes of climate change, the changing climate of Fiji, the effects of weather extremes, and mitigation and adaptation.
Learning about climate change the Pacific way - a visual guide - Kiribati: The visual guide has 16 colourful illustrated pictures showing the water cycle, Pacific and global climate, causes of climate change, the changing climate of Kiribati, the effects of weather extremes and mitigation and adaptation in a town and in gardening, forestry and fishing.
Learning about climate change the Pacific way - a guide for Pacific teachers - Kiribati: This teachers' guide presents learning outcomes, background information and hands-on teaching activities cover the water cycle, Pacific and global climate, causes of climate change, the changing climate of Kiribati, the effects of weather extremes, and mitigation and adaptation.
Learning about climate change the Pacific way - a visual guide - Samoa: The visual guide has 16 colourful illustrated pictures showing the water cycle, Pacific and global climate, causes of climate change, the changing climate of Samoa, the effects of weather extremes and mitigation and adaptation in a town and in gardening, forestry and fishing.
Learning about climate change the Pacific way - a guide for Pacific teachers - Samoa: This teachers' guide presents learning outcomes, background information and hands-on teaching activities cover the water cycle, Pacific and global climate, causes of climate change, the changing climate of Samoa, the effects of weather extremes, and mitigation and adaptation.
Learning about climate change the Pacific way - a visual guide - Tonga: The visual guide has 16 colourful illustrated pictures showing the water cycle, Pacific and global climate, causes of climate change, the changing climate of Tonga, the effects of weather extremes and mitigation and adaptation in a town and in gardening, forestry and fishing.
Learning about climate change the Pacific way - a guide for Pacific teachers - Tonga: This teachers' guide presents learning outcomes, background information and hands-on teaching activities cover the water cycle, Pacific and global climate, causes of climate change, the changing climate of Tonga, the effects of weather extremes, and mitigation and adaptation.
Learning about climate change the Pacific way - a visual guide - Vanuatu: The visual guide has 16 colourful illustrated pictures showing the water cycle, Pacific and global climate, causes of climate change, the changing climate of Vanuatu, the effects of weather extremes and mitigation and adaptation in a town and in gardening, forestry and fishing.
Learning about climate change the Pacific way - a guide for Pacific teachers - Vanuatu (Étudier le changement climatique dans le contexte océanien Guide pédagogique pour les enseignants du Pacifique Vanuatu): This teachers' guide presents learning outcomes, background information and hands-on teaching activities cover the water cycle, Pacific and global climate, causes of climate change, the changing climate of Vanuatu, the effects of weather extremes, and mitigation and adaptation. French and English versions available.
Learning about climate change the Pacific way - a visual guide - Tuvalu: The visual guide has 16 colourful illustrated pictures showing the water cycle, Pacific and global climate, causes of climate change, the changing climate of Tuvalu, the effects of weather extremes and mitigation and adaptation in a town and in gardening, forestry and fishing.
Learning about climate change the Pacific way - a guide for Pacific teachers - Tuvalu: This teachers' guide presents learning outcomes, background information and hands-on teaching activities cover the water cycle, Pacific and global climate, causes of climate change, the changing climate of Tuvalu, the effects of weather extremes, and mitigation and adaptation.
Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment [Technical Report]: Comprehensive technical report with findings from the First-pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment focusing on groundwater availability for future climates.
Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment Map 1: Potential vulnerability of groundwater in the Pacific region to future rainfall (2035-2064): Potential vulnerability of groundwater in the Pacific region to future rainfall (2035-2064). Map 1/7.
Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment Map 2: Potential vulnerability of groundwater in the Pacific region to future rainfall (2070-2099): Potential vulnerability of groundwater in the Pacific region to future rainfall (2070-2099) Map 2 of 7.
Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment Map 3: Potential vulnerability of groundwater in the Pacific region to future sea level (2035-2064): Potential vulnerability of groundwater in the Pacific region to future sea level (2035-2064) Map 3 of 7
Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment Map 4: Potential vulnerability of groundwater in the Pacifc region to future sea level (2070-2099): Potential vulnerability of groundwater in the Pacific region to future sea level (2070-2099) Map 4 of 7
Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment Map 5: Hydrogeological island types in the Pacific region: Hydrogeological island types in the Pacific region. Map 5 of 7
Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment Map 6: Hydrogeological island types of Pacific Island countries: Hydrogeological island types of Pacific Island countries. Map 6 of 7
Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment Map 7: Potential vulnerability of groundwater in Pacific Island countries to future rainfall (2035-2064): Potential vulnerability of groundwater in Pacific Island countries to future rainfall (2035-2064) Map 7 of 7
Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment [fact sheet]: Factsheet giving an overview of the results of a regional assessment of the vulnerability of Pacific Island groundwater resources to future climatic conditions.
Pacific Island Groundwater Vulnerability to Future Climates Dataset.Scale 1:250,000: Dataset associated with the Pacific Island Groundwater and Future Climates: First-Pass Regional Vulnerability Assessment. Includes a Pacific regional database of island types, including a range of attributes (e.g. elevation, shape, geology etc) relevant to groundwater vulnerability.
Understanding the costs and benefits of climate adaptation in the Pacific - case studies: Technical report with findings from cost benefit analysis in Solomon Islands (food security) and Vanuatu (infrastructure). This report also includes guidance for applying cost benefit analysis to climate risk management; and lessons learned.
Deciding for the future: Using cost benefit analysis to support climate risk management in the Pacific: A summary for policy-makers outlining the application of cost benefit analysis for climate risk management.
High resolution met-ocean modelling for storm surge risk analysis in Apia, Samoa: Technical Report modelling extreme water levels associated with tropical cyclone-related storm tide events along the Apia coastline, including the Mulinu’u Peninsula.

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