This document details the appendices for the vulnerability assessment. It examines topics such as stakeholder summary notes, climate data inventory, sources, and relevant literature.
The data includes tide gauge readings from before 1950 until the present in Pago Pago.
Flask CO2 and isotopic data sets taken at American Samoa: Latitude 14.2°S Longitude 170.6°W Elevation 30m. These data are subject to revision based on recalibration of standard gases.
The Weather Research and Forecast model (WRF) utilizes triply-nested meshes with varying horizontal resolutions (20 km, 4 km, and 0.8 km) to cover tropical and subtropical regions. The atmospheric driving fields, sourced from NASA's Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis and NOAA's sea surface temperature, include variables like temperature, wind, geopotential height, and water vapor. The Pseudo-Global-Warming method incorporates global warming signals from 12 CMIP5 models for future runs, spanning from January 1st, 2080 to December 31st, 2099, under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios.