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.

Advanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC)

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.

AgroClimate—Tools for Managing Climate Risk in Agriculture

Interactive tools and climate information provide support to improve crop management decisions and reduce production risks associated with climate variability, climate change, and extreme weather events in the southeastern United States.

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Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin Drought & Water Dashboard

Decision makers can access real-time information and interactive maps describing drought conditions across the ACF River Basin.

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Aquatic Connectivity Assessment and Prioritization Tool

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.

CarbonScapes

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

Carolinas Precipitation Patterns & Probabilities Atlas (c3p)

This digital atlas of hydroclimate extremes brings together information on precipitation patterns in the Carolinas over the past 120 years.

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CDC Heat & Health Tracker

Extreme heat events have long threatened public health in the United States. The CDC Heat & Health Tracker provides local heat and health information so communities can better prepare for and respond to extreme heat events.

Chucktown Floods: Adapting to Flooding in Charleston

Local resources to help people monitor and adapt to flooding in the Lowcountry of Charleston County, South Carolina.

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Climate and Hazard Mitigation Planning (CHaMP) Tool

The CHaMP Tool was designed specifically to address the substantive and communications needs of individuals developing hazard mitigation plans as required by FEMA.

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 Explorer

Explore climate projections for any county in the United States. For the contiguous U.S., you can compare maps of past and projected conditions for coming decades or consult historical records to see when weather has veered outside of normal climate.

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Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) Land Cover Atlas

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

Coastal Change Hazards Portal

This interactive map offers access to coastal change science and data on extreme storms, shoreline change, and sea level rise.

Coastal Inundation Dashboard

This dashboard brings water level data—including real-time, forecasts, storm surge, and historic flooding information—from over 200 coastal stations to your desktop.

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.

Community Health and Resource Management (CHARM)

This interactive, multi-layer visualization platform helps planners picture different future scenarios.

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Convergence of Climate Health Vulnerabilities

This website provides information and tools to help address climate-related health impacts in the Carolinas.

Coral Reef Watch—Satellite Monitoring Decision Support System

Marine managers can use this NOAA site to prepare for and respond to environmental stress on coral reef ecosystems, especially stress caused by climate variability and change.

DamWatch

Stakeholders of NCRS-assisted dams can receive real-time updates of rainfall, snowmelt, stream flow, and seismic events that could affect dam safety.

Eastern Region Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook

Each issue of this two-page report describes 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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Environmental Resilience Tools Wizard

This online tool was created to help state and local emergency managers, environmental or health agencies, and anyone who may not be familiar with EPA resources that help build community resilience to disasters.

Explore Climate Impacts

This interactive map—a companion to the Adaptation Workbook—lets you see how climate change may affect different regions and ecosystems in the U.S.

Extreme Water Levels

View probability statistics on the likelihood that coastal water levels at select stations will rise above or fall below a given elevation.

Gulf TREE (Tools for Resilience Exploration Engine)

This site walks Gulf Coast users through a decision-support tree framework to match them with relevant climate resilience tools.

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Heat Watch Campaigns

Over the past five years, the NOAA Office of Education, NOAA Climate Program Office, and the National Integrated Heat Health Information System have funded CAPA Heat Watch to support 40+ communities across the United States in mapping their urban heat islands.

Historical Hurricane Tracks

Explore locations and severity of tropical cyclones recorded around the world since 1842.

Inundation Analysis Tool

Coastal managers can query observations of select tidal gauges to find out how often and for how long local tides reached a specified elevation throughout their history.

IPCC AR6 Sea Level Projection Tool

Visualize and download the sea level projection data from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6).

LandCarbon

Explore carbon storage capacity and carbon flux of ecoregions in the contiguous United States. For each ecosystem, examine baseline values and projected estimates for future carbon storage and flux under three emissions scenarios.

Midwest Region Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook

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

National Marine Ecosystem Status (NaMES)

This website provides data on major marine ecosystem indicators, capturing the status and trends of seven U.S. ecosystem regions, as well as an overall national status. It also directs users to more detailed sources of NOAA data and information.

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Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Highway Resilience: An Implementation Guide

This Implementation Guide is designed to help transportation practitioners understand how and where nature-based and hybrid solutions can be used to improve the resilience of coastal roads and bridges.

NEWA—Network for Environment and Weather Applications

Growers in the Northeast can use this website to help make planting, pest management, and a range of other weather- and climate-based agricultural decisions.

NorEaST: Stream Temperature Data Inventory

Access this mapping framework to find stream temperatures and other data for Northeast, Midwest, and Great Lakes states.

OceanReports

Draw a custom area anywhere in U.S. waters or pick from a predefined list of locations to get instant custom reports that include descriptive infographics and supporting data for offshore planning, permitting, environmental review, and public relations.

PCSWMM

Professional modeling software for managing stormwater, wastewater, watershed, and water distribution systems.

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