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.

ACIS Climate Maps

Quickly generate maps of temperature and precipitation variables over various periods for states or regions of the United States.

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AdaptWest Climate Adaptation Planning Database

Planners can access data and detailed information for much of North America to compare conservation approaches and inform planning.

Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service

This comprehensive suite of graphical forecast products shows a range of information on current and projected river levels for almost 4,000 stations in the contiguous United States.

AgBiz Logic

Farmers, ranchers, and land managers can use this suite of digital tools to aid in economic, financial, and environmental decision making.

Annual Greenhouse Gas Index

Compare the total warming effect of heat-trapping gases in Earth's atmosphere to their level in 1990.

Bioenergy Knowledge Discovery Framework

Access datasets, publications, and models that support development of a bioenergy industry for the United States from this comprehensive resource. Use the site's map interface to visualize, analyze, download, and/or export geospatial data.

Biofuels Atlas

Compare and analyze biomass feedstocks, biofuels infrastructure, and biofuels use in the United States on this interactive map. Users can zoom to a region or state and conduct a range of simple analyses with selected data.

Biopower Atlas

Compare and analyze biomass feedstocks, biopower infrastructure, and environmental impacts in the United States on this interactive map. Zoom to a region or state and conduct a range of simple analyses with selected data.

Carbon Storage in Forests

Examine estimates for total carbon storage in forests in the contiguous United States, and trends of how stored carbon changed from 1990 to 2013.

CarbonScapes

A national look at carbon landscapes and a central location for the USDA carbon inventory, modeling, and mapping of terrestrial biosphere carbon.

CarbonTracker

Access outputs, inputs, and/or code for this carbon dioxide measuring and modeling system that tracks sources and sinks around the globe.

Climate at a Glance

Generate graphs and maps of monthly temperature and precipitation values, ranks, and anomalies for the globe, contiguous U.S., states, climate divisions, and selected cities.

Climate at a Glance Application

Comprehensively explore the question “Climate variability or climate change?”

Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal

Explore questions related to climate change impacts on human health through this online database of global scientific literature on the topic.

Climate Change Pressures in the 21st Century

This Story Map features three metrics that influence plant growth and survival and displays mapped projections of change throughout the century for the conterminous United States.

Climate Explorer

Explore climate projections for any county in the contiguous United States or borough in Alaska. Compare maps of past and projected conditions for coming decades. Consult historical records to see when weather has veered outside of normal climate.

Climate Mapper Tool

Explore interactive maps for the contiguous United States that display relevant past and projected future climate information to assist with decisions related to agriculture, drought, and fire conditions.

Climate Toolbox

This collection of web tools designed for agriculture, drought, and fire management allows users to visualize past and projected climate and hydrology over the contiguous United States.

Coastal Resilience Decision Support System

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.

Coastal Resilience Evaluation and Siting Tool (CREST)

Planners and natural resource managers can use this web tool to make informed decisions about the siting of restoration and resilience projects.

Coastal Risk Screening Tool

Explore coastal flood risk and sea level rise projections for nearly any coastal location in the world. Users can adjust variables such as decadal year, water level, pollution scenario, sea level rise model, and elevation data. También disponible en Español.

COMET-Farm

Farmers and ranchers use this carbon accounting tool to estimate their operation’s greenhouse gas emissions and capacity for carbon sequestration, and to evaluate the impacts of alternative management strategies on their net emissions.

Community Assessment Reporting Tool (CART)

This online tool generates a snapshot of U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) investment at the community level.

Community Earth System Model (CESM)

This expert-level climate model simulates past, present, and future conditions for atmosphere, ocean, land, land-ice, and sea-ice environments.

CropScape

View the USDA Cropland Data Layer to check the type of crop grown in each field across the contiguous U.S. from 1997 to the present. View a sequence of regional views to see how the distribution of specific crops has shifted over time.

Data Access Viewer (DAV)

Spatial analysts use this map-based search to find coastal LIDAR, imagery, land cover, and benthic datasets. The interface displays technical specifications for each dataset, and offers LiDAR output products for download.

Data Basin

Diverse collaborative groups can use this mapping and analysis platform to support environmental stewardship projects. The platform enables citizens, students and educators, natural resource practitioners, and scientists to visualize, draw, comment, and discuss aspects of their project.

Digital Shoreline Analysis System

Given two or more historical positions of a shoreline or other feature on a map, this ArcGIS extension will compute rates of change.

Drought Impacts Toolkit

Report and view wet, dry, and normal conditions and drought impacts.

Drought Risk Atlas

Access pre-computed drought indices for more than 4,000 locations across the United States.

eCoastal Tools

Coastal engineers use this set of ArcMap toolbars for data retrieval and to simplify complex geographic information system analysis procedures.

emPOWER Map

Hospitals, first responders, electric companies, and community members can use this interactive online map to view information about Medicare beneficiaries who rely on electricity-dependent medical and assistive equipment and severe weather events that may put them at risk for power outages.

U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit