U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published : . June 2014. Intense rainstorms, floods, and heat waves will become more common in the Great Lakes region due to climate change in the coming decades. While ice-cover decl ...

Narrative : . The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA's) offers several resources for assessing the impacts of climate change and extreme weather on transportation infrastructure. * CMIP Cl ...

Narrative : . This tool—developed by Indiana University's Environmental Resilience Institute—was designed to help local governments in Indiana and beyond effectively deliver services to thei ...

Narrative : . This suite of files provides an easy way to generate a two-page print document to help communicate local sea level rise scenarios and the related days of future high-tide or nu ...

Published : . October 2018. This special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change describes the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. The r ...

Published :. May 2017. The protocol developed and used in this report is unique in that it is an asset-level assessment of the vulnerability of infrastructure to multiple coastal hazards and climate c ...

Published : . January 2018. The goal of this concerted effort is to help Thurston County (Washington) and the broader South Puget Sound region prepare for and adjust to climate change ...

Narrative : . This program from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) helps volunteer scientists and community leaders work together to use science, especially Earth and space science, to tac ...

Narrative : . Gulf TREE (Tools for Resilience Exploration Engine) is a search engine; it uses a decision-support tree to match Gulf Coast users with relevant climate resilience tools. The br ...

Published : . December 2017. The Arctic shows no sign of returning to reliably frozen region of recent past decades. Despite relatively cool summer temperatures, observations in 2017 ...