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.

Screen capture from Climate Impacts and Outlook for Hawai'i and the U.S. Pacific Islands Region

Pacific Climate Information System - PaCIS Dashboard

A range of regional partners collaborate to produce quarterly climate impact reports and outlooks for the next season. Links to regional collaborators make it easy for users to find expertise for their resilience-building efforts.

Pacific El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Update

This quarterly newsletter provides practical and technical information regarding climate variability for the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands.

Pacific Island Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS)

Local government agencies, residents, and visitors can find real-time coastal and ocean observations as well as wave and water-level forecasts for many islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Pacific Island Sea Level Forecasts

This experimental product provides an outlook of monthly sea level anomalies for the next one to two seasons. We combine sea level forecasts with astronomical tide predictions to provide more accurate predictions of coastal water level compared to tide predictions alone.

Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA)

This site can help Pacific Island residents better understand how climate variability and change impact the their region and its communities. Content includes collections of publications, multimedia, maps, and case studies.

A large branch of a tree burns during a wildfire

Planning Framework for Protecting Commercial Building Occupants from Smoke During Wildfire Events

This planning framework provides recommended heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and building measures to minimize occupant exposures and health impacts from smoke during wildfire and prescribed burn events.

POWER Project Services Platform

NASA's Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project offers user communities data for solar and wind powered renewable energy systems, estimated building energy efficiency, and agroclimatology for crop models.

Rainfall Atlas of Hawaiʻi

This site offers interactive and downloadable maps showing detailed values and spatial patterns of monthly and annual rainfall for the major Hawaiian Islands.

Reef Resilience Toolkit

Marine managers and practitioners from around the world use this site to learn the basics of reef resilience and access syntheses of recent science. The site serves as a gateway to the Reef Resilience Network, where practitioners can share ideas, experiences, and expertise.

Map of the Pacific ocean with orange and purple areas indicating sea level anomalies

Sea Level Forecasts

This product provides an outlook of monthly sea level anomalies for the next one to two seasons. We combine sea level forecasts with astronomical tide predictions to provide more accurate predictions of coastal water level compared to tide predictions alone.

Screen capture of a SLR visualization in Waikiki

Sea Level Rise Hawaii

View visualizations of projected sea level rise in the Hawaiian Islands.

Sea Level Rise Viewer

Explore how the shoreline is likely to change with increasing amounts of sea level rise. This tool from NOAA's Office of Coastal Management lets you visualize the potential impacts of coastal flooding so you can prioritize actions for different scenarios.

Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) Model

This computerized numerical model estimates storm surge heights and is used by the National Hurricane Center to forecast storm surge and model storm surge vulnerability.

Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Land Use in Hawaii: A Policy Tool Kit for State and Local Governments

This guidebook describes a comprehensive set of land-use policy tools that can help shape Hawai‘i’s efforts to successfully adapt to rising sea levels in the coming decades.

Tribal Resilience Action Database

This database presents a culturally sensitive, easily accessible, and useful database of climate adaptation strategies and community examples already published by Tribes across the nation.

U.S. Drought Monitor

Access maps, data, and other information about current and past drought conditions across the United States.

White rocks line the bank of a stream in Washing County, USA.

Visualizing Ecosystem Land Management Assessments (VELMA) Model

VELMA is a tool designed to model effective decisions for a wide array of environmental issues. It is a spatially explicit ecohydrological watershed model that planners can use to visualize the effects of their decisions.

Vulnerability Assessment for Hawai'i's Native Forest Birds

Users can peruse this report to understand and prepare for the potential impacts of climate change on Hawai’i’s native forest birds.

Water Resources Dashboard

Water resource managers and urban planners use this dashboard for convenient access to maps and data that help them monitor the potential for extreme precipitation and drought in their regions.

Web Soil Survey

Zoom in on a map of the United States and outline an area of interest to access a soil map and descriptions of soils for that location. Access additional information to determine the suitability of the soils for particular uses, or download data for further analysis in desktop tools.

West Coast Ocean Data Portal

Discover and/or contribute valuable data resources to inform ocean planning, policy development, and resource management on the West Coast.

Western Region Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook

Each issue of this two-page report describes the region's weather and climate highlights from the previous quarter, and indicates the most likely temperature and precipitation conditions for the upcoming quarter.

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