Climate Hazards Data Integration and Visualization for the Climate Adaptations Solutions Accelerator through School-Community Hubs

Community engagement in planning is essential for effective and just climate adaptation. However, historically underserved communities are often difficult to reach through traditional means of soliciting public input. The Climate Adaptation Solutions Accelerator (CASA) through School-Community Hubs project identifies public schools as promising sites for building both community engagement and community capacity for climate adaptation. To serve in this role, schools need information about the intersecting threats climate change poses to the communities they serve. The Climate Hazard Dashboard for California Schools is a platform that maps the current and future risks associated with five climate hazards, including wildfire, extreme heat days, wildfire extreme precipitation, flooding, and sea level rise, for the nearly 10,000 public schools serving Kindergarten through Grade 12 students in California. Each hazard is mapped and visualized at the school level, providing an accessible way fo..., Data for extreme heat and extreme precipitation were retrieved using API requests from the caladaptr package. The data retrieved to calculate extreme heat days were historical observed daily maximum temperature for 1961-2005 and projected daily maximum temperature for 2006-2064. The data retrieved to calculate extreme precipitation days were historical observed daily precipitation totals for 1961-2005 and projected daily precipitation totals for 2006-2064. Data for wildfire, flooding, and sea level rise were downloaded directly from their sources and stored in a remote server for use.
All data were processed in R Studio using Quarto Docs. Tabular data for extreme heat and precipitation first used the retrieved historical data to calculate a threshold value to classify an extreme event. The threshold was determined to be the 98th percentile value of observed historical data for California. For extreme heat, this is 98°F. For extreme precipitation, this is 0.73 inches. Then, projected dai..., , ---

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This README.txt file was generated on 2024-05-23 by Liane Chen, Charlie
Curtin, Kristina Glass, and Hazel Vaquero. It is associated with the
data archival on this project through Dryad. To view the data archival
and download datasets, please visit
[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1jwstqk3g](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1jwstqk3g).

Recommended citation:

Curtin, Charles; Glass, Kristina; Chen, Liane; Vaquero, Hazel
(Forthcoming 2024). Climate Hazards Data Integration and Visualization
for the Climate Adaptations Solutions Accelerator through
School-Community Hubs [Dataset]. Dryad.
[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1jwstqk3g](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1jwstqk3g)

**GENERAL INFORMATION**

1\. Title of the Project: Climate Adaptation Solutions Accelerator
through School Community Hubs (alias CASAschools)

2\. Author Information

A. Principal Investigator Contact Information

Name: Liane Chen, Charlie Curtin, Kristina Glass, and Hazel Vaque...