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.

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NOWData – NOAA Online Weather Data

Explore various weather data products for selected areas throughout the U.S.

Nunaliit Atlas Framework

This framework makes it relatively simple to create interactive mapping web sites that incorporate data and multimedia, and permit authorized users to contribute additions and changes.

Ocean at the Door Map

Homeowners, planners, renters, and real-estate investors can examine vulnerability of old and new housing stock to rising seas to understand the consequences of the changing climate for coastal property.

Ocean Ecosystem Indicators

Marine managers can use information from this site to help them forecast salmon returns in the northern California Current, and to build their understanding of how variations in ocean conditions might affect recruitment of fish stocks, seabirds, and other marine animals.

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OceanAdapt

Explore how the distribution of almost 650 marine species—including those of interest to commercial and recreational fishing—have changed over the past 40 years.

OnTheMap for Emergency Management

Easily retrieve real-time reports containing detailed workforce, population, and housing characteristics for areas being affected by natural disasters.

Oregon Coastal Atlas

This website offers a collection of digital tools and background information to inform decision making for the Oregon Coastal Zone.

Our Coast, Our Future

Coastal resource managers and planners in the San Francisco Bay region can use locally relevant, online maps and tools to explore, visualize, and anticipate vulnerabilities related to sea level rise and storms.

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 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.

Pan Inuit Trails Atlas

Access digitized maps and historical evidence of Inuit presence across most of the Canadian Arctic. The atlas offers map- and text-based searches to help users find material obtained from hundreds of published and unpublished documents.

PCSWMM

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

Peril of Flood | Florida's Coastal Resiliency Portal

Planners in Florida can find best practice approaches along with resources and tools for building coastal resilience.

PINEMAP Decision Support System

Resource managers can use tools in this system to explore climate-based risks and opportunities for loblolly pine growth in planted forests in the southeastern U.S.

Planning Framework for a Climate-Resilient Economy

Municipal officials interested in improving the resilience of their economy can use this flexible tool to get a "big picture" assessment of their climate vulnerabilities or to dive deeper and map out specific economic impacts or threats and business opportunities.

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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.

Populations at Risk

Climate change practitioners can use this tool to gather fine-scale information about populations within geographies of interest. Reports from the tool can be very useful for developing city-wide vulnerability assessments.

Precipitation and Applications Viewer

View and download global precipitation data and flood and landslide nowcasts.

Probable Futures

Find interactive maps, science, historical context, and stories to help everyone envision a range of potential climate futures.

Public Involvement Techniques for Transportation Decisionmaking

This guide provides a variety of tools to secure meaningful input from the public on transportation plans, programs, and projects. Though designed specifically for transportation, the strategies can also be useful for other sectors.

Photomosaic of an area of the Puerto Rican coastline circa 1930

Puerto Rico 1930 Georeferenced: A Coastal Mosaic

Download georeferenced aerial photographs from 1930 for the coastal areas of Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico Climate Change Council Website

Individuals, businesses, and municipalities working on climate adaptation in Puerto Rico can find information about climate change and local adaptation projects, as well as contact information for people working on climate change issues in Puerto Rico.

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Puerto Rico Coastal Vulnerability Viewer

View coastal resources and infrastructure that may be at risk due to climate change and sea level rise in the islands of Puerto Rico.

Quick Drought Response Index (QuickDRI)

Designed to detect rapid-onset, “flash drought” events, which can have devastating economic impacts on the agricultural sector and can quickly change conditions during a drought.

R Statistical Analysis Software

R is an open-source language and environment for a variety of statistical and graphical analysis techniques.

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.

Rapid Vulnerability & Adaptation Tool for Climate-Informed Community Planning

This worksheet helps communities compile readily available climate data and local knowledge to assess their climate vulnerability and collaboratively develop adaptation strategies.

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.

Regional Adaptation Collaborative Toolkit

Groups interested in forming local or regional adaptation networks can build on this framework. Developed in California, the framework can be used elsewhere to help groups learn of successful strategies and adapt them for their own use.

Residential Energy Demand Temperature Index

Access and interact with data on population-weighted heating and cooling degree days in the United States since 1895.

Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT)

This free web map gives emergency managers and other community leaders a way to examine the interplay of census data, infrastructure locations, and hazards. Available data layers include real-time weather forecasts, historic disasters, and estimated annualized frequency of hazard risk.

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