U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Narrative :. This web-based application identifies bridges, culverts, and road embankments that are vulnerable to damage from floods, estimates risk based on the vulnerability, and criticality of road ...

Narrative : . Outdoor recreation provides substantial economic benefits to the United States. In particular, within Northern California and the Sierra Nevada regions the proportion of the po ...

Narrative : . Average moisture values were derived from historical data on precipitation and potential evapotranspiration. A z-score is a statistical method for assessing how different a val ...

Narrative : . Drought is summarized using the Cumulative Drought Severity Index (CDSI). This uses weighted frequencies of the self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index (sc-PDSI) reported ...

Narrative : . The Northern Rocky Mountains Adaptation Partnership is a science-management partnership made up of 15 national forests in the U. S. Forest Service's Northern Region, three nati ...

Narrative :. Forests cover more than 40 million acres across New England and northern New York, from the coast of the Atlantic Ocean to the peaks of the Appalachian Mountains. These forests deliver ma ...

Narrative : . The Intermountain Adaptation Partnership (IAP) is a science-management partnership with a wide variety of participants across the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Servic ...

Narrative :. Mid-Atlantic forests sweep the Atlantic coastal plain to the Catskill Mountains, covering approximately half of the 60-million acre assessment area. These forests provide many benefits to ...

Narrative :. A warming climate will have profound effects on fire frequency, extent, and severity in the Pacific Northwest. Increased temperatures, decreased snowpack, and earlier snowmelt will likely ...

Narrative :. From sea level rise to glacial retreat, the southeast Alaskan shoreline is undergoing dynamic changes—sometimes at unprecedented rates. Scientists at the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research ...