U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Narrative : . ADCIRC simulates tidal circulation and storm surge propagation over large computational domains, eliminating the need for imposing approximate open-water boundary conditions th ...

What if it Happened Here? Boston Takes a Lesson From Houston's Hurricane Harvey. Faced with the possibility of a storm similar to Hurricane Harvey hitting Boston, the City Mayor had city planners eval ...

Published : . September 2020. This report presents recommendations for how state governments can develop climate-resilience financial systems that help local communities invest in pro ...

SURGEDAT Narrative : . This website has archived the location and height of more than 700 tropical surge events around the world since 1880 and identified more than 8,000 unique high water m ...

Narrative : . CHARM is a mapping application that gives local officials, stakeholders, and citizens the power to map and analyze growth with real-time feedback. When used with the weTable—a ...

Published :. March 2021. This Guide is written for practitioners already using or wanting to use future climate information in their work, but who are not familiar with the underlying assumptions and ...

A Community Effort Stems Runoff to Safeguard Corals in Puerto Rico. In Culebra, Puerto Rico, the community used green infrastructure to decrease coastal erosion and mitigate damage to their near-shore ...

Published : . March 2009. Historically, studies about climate hazards and social vulnerability have been conducted in separate silos. The Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) is the firs ...

Published : . March 2012. Oxfam America, in their work to shed light on the vulnerability of the geography and people of the U. S. Southeast, commissioned two reports from the Hazards ...

Published : . February 2020. Thin-layer placement (TLP), an emergent adaptation strategy that mimics natural sediment deposition processes, is one of the only viable options to protec ...