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.

Integrated Rapid Visual Screening for Buildings

This downloadable software package from the Department of Homeland Security helps users compile a preliminary assessment of the relative risk and resilience of 15 types of buildings to 20 hazardous events, including natural hazards such as floods and wind.

Integrated Rapid Visual Screening for Tunnels

This downloadable software package from the Department of Homeland Security helps users determine the initial or relative risk and resilience of tunnels to a range of hazards, including natural hazards such as fire and floods.

Integrated Valuation of Environmental Services and Tradeoffs (inVEST)

Analysts can produce maps showing the location and value of ecosystem services to inform land use decisions. The downloadable tool set requires a desktop GIS.

Intensity Duration Frequency Curves for New York State: Future Projections for a Changing Climate

Engineers in New York State can use this website to determine future changes in rainfall recurrence intervals.

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International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management

This set of guidelines provides practitioners with the best available information concerning the conceptualization, planning, design, engineering, construction, and maintenance of NNBF to support resilience and flood risk reduction for coastlines, bays, and estuaries, as well as river and freshwater systems.

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.

Inundation Mapping Interface

Emergency managers, public officials, and individuals in some U.S. cities can get map-based forecasts showing locations at risk of inundation for National Weather Service flood forecasts.

Iowa Flood Information System

This one-stop web platform facilitates access to community-based flood conditions, forecasts, visualizations, and inundation maps and flood-related data, information, and applications.

IPCC AR6 Sea Level Projection Tool

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

J-SCOPE (JISAO’s Seasonal Coastal Ocean Prediction of the Ecosystem)

Marine managers can use this site's forecasts to support the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA). Results provide forecast indicators requested by the Pacific Fishery Management Council.

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Keeping Pace: A Short Guide to Navigating Sea-Level Rise Models

This site helps coastal decision makers select an appropriate sea level rise model for their situation. The brief guide describes various categories of sea level rise models and situations for which they are best applied.

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Lake Level Viewer: United States Great Lakes

Visualize impacts of increased and decreased water levels in the Great Lakes in an online viewer, or access data and services directly to perform customized analyses.

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.

LANDFIRE

Access map layers, databases, and ecological models related to fire for the United States and some island territories. The site also features an array of useful Help features to assist new users in accomplishing common tasks.

Landscape of Tribal Communities: Context for Working in Rural Alaska

Two infographics and a recorded presentation can help people understand some of the complexities of working to build resilience in rural Alaska. Clear graphics describe the large number of engagement requests and internal stressors that people in Alaskan tribes experience.

Landslide Monitoring

Managers and planners in some states can access landslide inventory data from this website, part of a pilot project to develop a national landslide inventory database.

Landslide Overview Map

Researchers can view—and download shapefiles of the landslide data—from this preliminary digital version of a national landslide susceptibility map.

LASSO—Locating and Selecting Scenarios Online

GIS specialists who need climate projection data can locate, select, and download files of climate change projections that align with given research questions or objectives.

LiDAR Topographic Data

The 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) Provides Detailed Topographic Information for EarthMRI.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Digital Commons Database

Find quantified estimates of the inputs and outputs associated with phases of agricultural products’ life cycles.

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Living Near Dams

Communities located downstream from dams can learn about risks and find information about how to react if they fail. Dam owners, safety officials, and lawmakers can learn how extreme rainfall events affect the risk of dam failure, and how to reduce those risks.

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Local Climate Analysis Tool (LCAT)

Meteorologists use this tool to link local weather and water events to climate variability and change in the global climate system.

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Local Environmental Observer (LEO) Network

Network members post unique or unusual environmental events onto public, web-based maps. The network provides a model for connecting community members with technical experts and resources.

Local Sea Level Rise Two-Pager Template

Extension and outreach professionals can use this set of files to generate a two-page print document to communicate projected changes in local sea level and high-tide flooding.

Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)

This program helps keep families safe and healthy by providing federally funded assistance with home energy bills, energy crises, and weatherization and energy-related minor home repairs.

Lyme Disease Communications Toolkit

A variety of useful communication tools for state and local health departments about prevention of Lyme Disease.

MACA CMIP5 Statistically Downscaled Climate Projections

Access projection data produced through the Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (MACA) method. Variables available for the contiguous U.S. enable users to explore projections for hydrology, ecology, vegetation, fire, and wind.

Managed Retreat Toolkit

This online resource presents legal and policy tools, best and emerging practices, and case studies to support peer learning and decision making around managed retreat and climate adaptation.

Managing Drought Risk on the Ranch

This planning guide for Great Plains ranchers provides information on how to manage drought.

Maryland Coastal Atlas

State and local decision makers perform analyses on this system of maps depicting sensitive coastal habitats, living resources, and human uses to inform their coastal planning processes.

Massachusetts Wildlife Climate Action Tool

Users in Massachusetts can access this tool to better understand the vulnerability of fish, wildlife, and natural resources to climate change, learn how to implement adaptation actions on the ground, and explore climate data and projections.

Methodology for Tidal Wetland and Seagrass Restoration

Wetland restoration projects can use this methodology to help them estimate and document net greenhouse gas emission reductions and removals resulting from their project activities.

Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARACOOS) | An IOOS Regional Data Portal

MARACOOS and its partners track storms and collect and distribute data related to storms and other extreme events impacting the East Coast, covering the region from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras.

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Midwest Glacial Lakes Partnership Conservation Planner

Access data to inform communication, management, and research that benefits fish habitat and lake ecosystems in the Great Lakes, Midwest, and Northern Great Plains.

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.

MIKE-21 Spectral Waves

This professional software package helps engineers better predict the power of wind-waves, providing key input to breakwater design, wave agitation, and dynamic ship mooring modeling by establishing wave conditions adjacent to ports and terminals.

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