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Pacific Climate Futures is a free web-based climate decision support tool led and developed by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). It is primarily focused on providing standardized regional climate projection data for Timor-Leste and 14 Pacific Island countries, to support climate change impact assessment and adaptation planning. The tool integrates two sets of global climate model data, CMIP3 and CMIP5, which were used in the IPCC Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports. It has applied regional downscaling to a selection of these models, allowing users to query projected changes in temperature and precipitation across multiple future time periods and different emission scenarios, and offers result visualization and data export functions. It features a tiered permission design: basic functions are open to all visitors for quick access to projection overviews; intermediate and advanced functions require a registered account, which supports generating custom projections, exporting analysis data, and automatically screening for typical scenarios via a built-in representative model wizard to reduce researchers' workload.
The tool is completely free for non-commercial research use. For commercial use, users need to contact CSIRO separately to apply for authorization. Its core advantage is that its data has undergone the most comprehensive independent peer review for the Pacific region, with poorly performing models filtered out. Its regional adaptability and reliability are far higher than general global climate data; the tiered design accommodates both casual query needs and professional research use, with a relatively low barrier to entry.
Its disadvantages are also quite clear: the tool only covers the Pacific region, so it is almost useless for users working on other regions; its last terms of service update was in 2020, and the data version has not been updated to the current latest CMIP6 model; there are many restrictions on function use: commercial use and web crawling are prohibited, and no Chinese interface is provided.
The website is currently directly accessible from mainland China, no VPN/proxy is required. It is suitable for climate researchers and adaptation policymakers working on the Pacific region, and researchers based in China working on Pacific climate change issues can reference and use it.
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