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

Technical Report · Mon Feb 22 04:00:00 EST 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1242341· OSTI ID:1242341

Fowler, Kimberly M. ^[1]; Judd, Kathleen S. ^[1]; Brandenberger, Jill M. ^[1]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

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.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1242341
• Report Number(s): PNNL--25162; HU1002000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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