Cal-Adapt User Survey

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Cal-Adapt (https://cal-adapt.org) hosts tools and information that show how climate change is predicted to affect California. Cal-Adapt aims to serve a wide range of audiences and be particularly useful to planners, scientists, and other public servants.

The Cal-Adapt team continually strives to make its climate data visualizations, interpretation, and download tools more useful. This survey will expand the Cal-Adapt team's understanding of who uses Cal-Adapt and for what purposes, to expand the tools available, build a seamless user experience, and support climate change adaptation across California.

We anticipate that this survey will take 5 to 10 minutes. Though not required, we encourage you to fill out all questions.

Thank you for your response! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Nancy Thomas at nethomas@berkeley.edu.

What best describes the focus of your work? *

Agriculture

Climate Justice

Emergency Management

Energy

General Interest

Land Use and Community Develoment

Natural Resource Management

Oceans and Coasts

Public Health

Transportation

Water

Other:

Required

What is your current industry? *

Federal Government

State Government

Local Government

Community-Based Organization

Academic Research

Private Industry

Tribal Entity

Non-Profit or NGO

Consultant

Other:

Would you characterize yourself as: *

Very familiar with climate change science and data

Somewhat familiar with climate change science and data

Not familiar with climate change science and data

Other:

How do you hope to be able to use Cal-Adapt?

Please check all that apply.

Explore map visualizations and animations to learn more about how climate change may affect California

Explore charts and graphs that show how climate change is projected to affect a particular region of interest

Download charts and graphs to include in reports or presentations that show how climate change is projected to affect a particular region of interest (png, jpeg)

Access and download climate data in tabular format (csv)

Access and download climate data in raster format (Geotiff)

Access and download climate data from the primary source in netCDF format

Access and download customized climate data through the Cal-Adapt API by writing computer code (Python, JavaScript)

I'm not sure

Other:

How do you typically use climate data?

Do you use Cal-Adapt, or do you use another tool? Why?

What software(s) do you use for your reporting or analysis? *

Please check all that apply.

Excel or other spreadsheet

GIS

Presentation software (i.e. Powerpoint)

Python

Word doc or PDF

Other:

Required

How would you rate the overall ease of use of the site?

Difficult to use

Easy to use

Clear selection

How would you rate the overall speed and responsiveness of the tools?

Slow

Fast

Clear selection

What do you like best about Cal-Adapt?

What do you like least about Cal-Adapt?

How can we improve Cal-Adapt? Please feel free to share your ideas and suggestions to help us make the site more engaging and useful.

What additional data layers, features, or tools would be most useful to include on Cal-Adapt?

Would you recommend this site to your friends or colleagues? *

Yes

Are there any other climate service tools or websites that you like or find useful? If so, please share the name or link here.

Any additional comments? We welcome suggestions on any areas of improvement or features you'd like to see added to the site.

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