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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Climate Resiliency Planning Process and Lessons Learned

Year: 2016

Type: report

Abstract: In 2015, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) developed its first Climate Resilience Plan for its Richland Campus. PNNL has performed Climate Resilience Planning for the Department of Defense, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Department of Energy (DOE) over the past 5 years. The assessment team included climate scientists, social scientists, engineers, and operations managers. A multi-disciplinary team was needed to understand the potential exposures to future changes at the site, the state of the science on future impacts, and the best process for “mainstreaming” new actions into existing activities. The team uncovered that the site’s greatest vulnerabilities, and therefore priorities for climate resilience planning, are high temperature due to degraded infrastructure, increased wildfire frequency, and intense precipitation impacts on stormwater conveyance systems.

Source: OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

DOI: 10.2172/1242341

Authors: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States), Kimberly Fowler, USDOE, Kathleen Judd, Jill Brandenberger

Institution: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Language: English

Topic: Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis

Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

OpenAlex ID: W2464033938

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