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.

Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation

Check local exposure to climate-related hazards, now and in the future.

Climate Resilience Evaluation & Awareness Tool (CREAT)

Owners and operators of drinking water and wastewater utilities can use this web-based tool to assess potential climate change threats and evaluate adaption options at their sites.

Climate Service Providers Database | NOAA Western Region

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.

Climate Smart Farming Tools

This suite of tools—which includes a growing degree day calculator, a water deficit calculator, a winter cover crop scheduler, a drought atlas, and grape/apple freeze risk tools—helps with decision making on irrigation, crop scheduling, and more.

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.

Climate Vulnerability Assessment in the Northern Rocky Mountains

Access this StoryMap to learn about climate change impacts and identified adaptation strategies in the Northern Rocky Mountains.

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Climate-Smart Conservation: Putting Adaptation Principles into Practice

Natural resource managers and conservation professionals can use this guide to help them incorporate climate considerations into their work.

Climate4Cities

This project by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln supported municipal climate adaptation in the Missouri River Basin. The project website hosts climate reports for 11 Midwestern cities and and an online data explorer for 10 states across middle America.

ClimateData.us

Zoom to any location in the contiguous United States and move a slider across the map to compare projected changes in temperature and precipitation. Compare conditions by decade under a mitigation scenario (reduced emissions) and a high-emissions scenario.

CMIP Climate Data Processing Tool

Transportation planners can use this Microsoft Excel®-based spreadsheet file to process raw climate model outputs into relevant statistics, such as changes in the frequency of very hot days and extreme precipitation events.

CO-Benefits Risk Assessment (COBRA) Health Impacts Screening and Mapping Tool

State and local governments can use this tool to estimate the health and economic benefits of clean energy policies.

Coastal Adaptation Toolkit

Selected resources about coastal areas and watersheds for practitioners and environmental professionals.

Coastal Blue Carbon in Practice

This Manual for Using the VCS Methodology for Tidal Wetlands and Seagrass Restoration documents how wetlands restoration efforts can generate carbon offsets.

Coastal Blue Carbon Manual

Scientists and coastal managers can use this practical manual to assess carbon stocks and emissions factors in mangroves, tidal salt marshes, and seagrass meadows.

Coastal Change Analyses for Western Alaska: Interactive Map

View analyses of coastal change made by analyzing Landsat images collected along Alaska's west coast in 1972 and 2013.

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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.

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Coastal Community Resilience Planning Guide — Louisiana

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

Coastal County Snapshots

Select a coastal county and explore summary snapshots describing its flood exposure, wetland benefits, or economic benefits from ocean jobs. Communities access these reports to benchmark current conditions and identify opportunities for building resilience.

Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper

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.

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Coastal Flood Impacts for the City of Boston

Visualize flood impacts while planning and preparing for—and responding to—current and future coastal storms in Boston, Massachusetts.

Coastal Flooding, Climate Change, and Your Health: What You Can Do to Prepare

Geared to the general public, this booklet identifies steps people can take to prepare for the health risks associated with coastal flooding.

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 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.