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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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.

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 The atlas offers map- and text-based searches to help users find material obtained from hundreds of published and unpublished documents.

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Pasture, Rangeland, Forage Support Tool

Farmers, ranchers, and their crop insurance agents evaluate insurance programs to select appropriate coverage for managing risks.

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.

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Ports Resilience Index

Port management organizations can use this self-assessment to determine if they are prepared to maintain operations during and after disasters.

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.

Precip.net: Extreme Precipitation in New York and New England

Researchers can use this resource to assess extreme rainfall return frequency for New York and New England, using an alternate methodology to that used in NOAA Atlas 14.

Precipitation and Applications Viewer

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

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Precipitation Frequency Data Server (PFDS)

Access precipitation frequency estimates for precipitation depth or intensity as tables, graphs, or GIS layers for any location in the contiguous United States.

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.

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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.

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Ready Campaign

Find information on how you and your family can best prepare to deal with a natural disaster or weather-related emergency. The site includes information for building an emergency supply kit and making a family emergency plan.

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Ready Campaign | Extreme Heat Safety Social Media Toolkit

Heat safety messages and graphics for use in social media outreach campaigns.

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Ready Campaign | Military Family Preparedness

Military personnel and their families can access information to help them be prepared for all types of emergencies. Specific Ready programs are available for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard.

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Recognizing, Preventing, and Treating Heat-Related Illness

This online training course helps coaches, school nurses, students, and parents understand heat-related illness in student athletes.

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.

Resilience and Adaptation in New England (RAINE)

Communities in New England can use this database to learn from others' planning and assessment experiences, share lessons being learned, discover how to better assist municipalities, and promote collaboration.

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