U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Community members can explore how past and future flooding can affect their stormwater systems and generate a report to inform planning efforts.

Communities can use this website to determine how the flooding of today and tomorrow can affect their stormwater systems, and generate reports about flooding impacts to support planning efforts.

ADCIRC is a system of computer programs for solving time dependent, free surface circulation and transport problems in two and three dimensions. These programs utilize the finite element method in space allowing the use of highly flexible, unstructured grids.

Each issue of this graphics-rich product describes weather and climate highlights from the previous quarter, and indicates the most likely temperature and precipitation conditions for the upcoming quarter.

Users in the North Atlantic—from Maine to West Virginia—can access this database and these tools to help identify bridges and culverts that impede aquatic connectivity.

Coastal managers considering shore protection projects can work with civil engineers to model and measure the potential costs and benefits of protecting existing infrastructure against erosion. Using Beach-fx to generate a realistic model requires substantial data development and analysis. Training is typically required.

Ask these questions to help get the risk conversation started. Get people to open up, share their concerns, and talk about what matters to them.

Help people visualize the impact of potential projects or events with this downloadable photo-editing software. Users can modify "before" images of familiar scenes to show how they might look "after" a specified amount of sea level rise or after a proposed building project is complete.

This guide and the accompanying documents and spreadsheets can help Department of Defense installation managers incorporate climate considerations into integrated natural resource management plans.

Planners in coastal Alaska can use this guide to help with local adaptation efforts.

The City of Boston requires new construction and redevelopment projects to consider present and future climate conditions. This checklist helps decision makers consider the range of issues building and their inhabitants may face.

This assessment tool relies on available data and municipal staff’s own knowledge of their facilities and infrastructure to generate a relatively quick, low-cost assessment of the vulnerability of their assets to extreme weather.

This "match-making app for the climate world" connects users of climate information with the wide array of information and services available in NOAA's Western Region.

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

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

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.

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.