Tools | U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Tools are available to help you manage your climate-related risks and opportunities, and to help guide you in building resilience to extreme events. Browse the list below, or filter by topic and/or tool functionality in the boxes above. To expand your results, click the Clear Filters link.

Climigration

Resources on this site encourage people to have conversations about managed retreat as one option for dealing with rising sea levels.

CMIP Climate Data Processing Tool

Transportation planners can use this Microsoft Excel®-based spreadsheet file to process raw climate model outputs into relevant statistics, such as changes in the frequency of very hot days and extreme precipitation events.

CO-Benefits Risk Assessment (COBRA) Health Impacts Screening and Mapping Tool

State and local governments can use this tool to estimate the health and economic benefits of clean energy policies.

Coastal Adaptation Toolkit

Selected resources about coastal areas and watersheds for practitioners and environmental professionals.

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Coastal and Waterfront SmartGrowth

Sustainable coastal development information, tools, and case studies for planners, local government officials, developers, residents, and other stakeholders.

Coastal Blue Carbon in Practice

This Manual for Using the VCS Methodology for Tidal Wetlands and Seagrass Restoration documents how wetlands restoration efforts can generate carbon offsets.

Coastal Blue Carbon Manual

Scientists and coastal managers can use this practical manual to assess carbon stocks and emissions factors in mangroves, tidal salt marshes, and seagrass meadows.

Coastal Change Analyses for Western Alaska: Interactive Map

View analyses of coastal change made by analyzing Landsat images collected along Alaska's west coast in 1972 and 2013.

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Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) Land Cover Atlas

Examine land cover classifications within coastal regions and how they changed from 1996 to 2010.

Coastal Change Hazards Portal

This interactive map offers access to coastal change science and data on extreme storms, shoreline change, and sea level rise.

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Coastal Community Resilience Planning Guide — Louisiana

Small groups can use this 20-page guide to get started on the process of building resilience for their community.

Coastal County Snapshots

Select a coastal county and explore summary snapshots describing its flood exposure, wetland benefits, or economic benefits from ocean jobs. Communities access these reports to benchmark current conditions and identify opportunities for building resilience.

Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper

Explore local maps to stimulate discussions about the people, places, and natural resources exposed to coastal flooding. Create a collection of maps showing risk from various hazards.

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Coastal Flood Impacts for the City of Boston

Visualize flood impacts while planning and preparing for—and responding to—current and future coastal storms in Boston, Massachusetts.

Coastal Flooding, Climate Change, and Your Health: What You Can Do to Prepare

Geared to the general public, this booklet identifies steps people can take to prepare for the health risks associated with coastal flooding.

Coastal Inundation Dashboard

This dashboard brings water level data—including real-time, forecasts, storm surge, and historic flooding information—from over 200 coastal stations to your desktop.

Coastal Resilience Decision Support System

Coastal residents and planners use this suite of GIS-based tools to visualize flood risks from sea level rise and storm surge and identify areas and populations at risk.

Coastal Resilience Evaluation and Siting Tool (CREST)

Planners and natural resource managers can use this web tool to make informed decisions about the siting of restoration and resilience projects.

Coastal Resilience Index

Communities can complete this questionnaire to assess their level of preparedness for extreme events. The exercise helps communities discuss and discover their climate-related vulnerabilities.

Coastal Restoration Toolkit

This web-based toolkit offers a wealth of tools and resources to help coastal residents address flooding, coastal erosion, water quality, invasive species, and wildlife habitat restoration.

Coastal Risk Screening Tool

Explore coastal flood risk and sea level rise projections for nearly any coastal location in the world. Users can adjust variables such as decadal year, water level, pollution scenario, sea level rise model, and elevation data. También disponible en Español.

COMET-Farm

Farmers and ranchers use this carbon accounting tool to estimate their operation’s greenhouse gas emissions and capacity for carbon sequestration, and to evaluate the impacts of alternative management strategies on their net emissions.

Community Assessment Reporting Tool (CART)

This online tool generates a snapshot of U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) investment at the community level.

Community Earth System Model (CESM)

This expert-level climate model simulates past, present, and future conditions for atmosphere, ocean, land, land-ice, and sea-ice environments.

Community Health and Resource Management (CHARM)

This interactive, multi-layer visualization platform helps planners picture different future scenarios.

Community Rating System Explorer

This app that helps planners identify areas that are eligible for Open Space Preservation (OSP) credits in FEMA’s Community Rating System (CRS).

Community Resilience Portal

This online portal catalogues a set of resources that local planners can use to help plan and prepare for changing natural hazards when undertaking HUD-funded activities.

Community Resource Guide for Planning Living Shorelines Projects

This guidebook provides community leaders, citizens, and contractors with guidance on key elements that should be considered when embarking on living shoreline projects.

Community-Based Climate Adaptation Toolkit

Marine managers can find resources to engage communities in their efforts to manage, protect, and restore coral reefs and reef fisheries around the world.

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Community-Based Water Resiliency (CBWR) Guide

Communities can use this downloadable guide to prepare for a water service interruption before an emergency occurs.

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Compendium of Adaptation Approaches

This database of adaptation actions can help natural resource managers move from broad ideas to specific actions appropriate for their geography and climate pressures.

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Convergence of Climate Health Vulnerabilities

This website provides information and tools to help address climate-related health impacts in the Carolinas.

Coral Reef Watch—Satellite Monitoring Decision Support System

Marine managers can use this NOAA site to prepare for and respond to environmental stress on coral reef ecosystems, especially stress caused by climate variability and change.

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Corn Split Nitrogen Decision Support Tool

Farmers and farm advisors can access this web-based tool to determine best/worst/average scenarios for successfully completing nitrogen application for corn production.

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CostaVisPR: Vista aérea de la transformación costera de Puerto Rico

Use this visualization tool to see changes in Puerto Rico's coasts since 1930.

Creating Resilient Water Utilities

Drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater utility professionals can access the resources on this website to find tools, training, and technical assistance to help them increase resilience to extreme weather events.

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