| Summary: | The World Bank Climate Knowledge Portal is powered by Climate Wizard. Climate Wizard enables technical and non-technical audiences alike to access leading climate change information and visualize the impacts anywhere on Earth. With Climate Wizard users can: view historic temperature and rainfall maps, view state-of-the-art future predictions of temperature and rainfall, and view and download climate change maps in a few easy steps. This site provides metrics on interpreting risks within specific sector or service, such as:
• Water supply focused on total precipitation and two measures of dryness and drought conditions.
• Flood risk driven by rainfall average, measures of wet day rainfall, and short term maximum rainfall intensities.
• Human health focuses on temperature stress (hot and cold) to people: hottest and coldest single day temperature.
• Energy demand incorporates heating and cooling demand using heating and cooling degree days.
• Agro-ecosystem impacts to climate change incorporates many aspects including total precipitation, dry conditions, extreme hot and cold temperatures, and growing degree days.
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