Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program

The Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) is a new, southern United States focused climate hazards preparedness program which aims to bridge the gap between climate science and local-level climate hazard planning processes.

Focusing on the six-state region of Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi, SCIPP investigates major climate hazards of the region and actively engages community-level decision makers to:

• 1) determine hazard planning and climate data gaps,
• 2) collaboratively develop an all-hazards assessment tool, and
• 3) provide education and outreach.

Major climate hazards of interest of SCIPP include droughts, floods, hurricanes, and storms due to their frequency and impact across the region.

As the ninth and newest Regional Integrated Science and Assessment (RISA) program in the United States, SCIPP strives to continue the success of the RISA program in conducting critical, interdisciplinary research through stakeholder partnerships. SCIPP is a collaborative research effort between the Oklahoma Climatological Survey at the University of Oklahoma and the Department of Anthropology and Geography/Southern Regional Climate Center at Louisiana State University.