Climate change disproportionately affects developing countries due to its impacts on agriculture, water supplies, and natural disasters, jeopardizing progress in poverty reduction and threatening the well-being of billions. The World Bank Group is actively aiding these nations by addressing climate challenges through tailored approaches, encompassing data on climate systems, resilience, emissions, and various sectors like health and infrastructure.
This dataset comprises water temperature data collected through subsurface temperature recorders (STRs) for monitoring seawater temperature variability at permanent coral reef sites in American Samoa. Deployed as part of the NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP), these high-accuracy temperature loggers, manufactured by SeaBird Electronics (SBE), operate at depths of 0 to 30 meters along depth transects at Ocean and Climate Change monitoring survey sites for 3 years. Recovered STRs are replaced with new deployments in the same location.
Ground-water and rainfall data from Tutuila and Aunuu in American Samoa, spanning October 1987 to September 1997, reveal trends in pumpage, chloride concentrations, and water levels. Noteworthy findings include varied pumpage rates and chloride concentrations, with Aua experiencing record-high chloride levels, while water levels in certain areas remained consistent or declined during the 12-month period ending September 1997.
This tool provides rain data in American Samoa from 1945-2024. The desired year and month can be selected.
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.
The data includes tide gauge readings from before 1950 until the present in Pago Pago.