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.

ACIS Climate Maps

Quickly generate maps of temperature and precipitation variables over various periods for states or regions of the United States.

Adapting Stormwater Management for Coastal Floods

Community members can explore how past and future flooding can affect their stormwater systems and generate a report to inform planning efforts.

AdaptMap Jamaica Bay

This online mapping tool for New York's Jamaica Bay allows users to compare and contrast historical, present day, and potential future landscapes against an array of sea level and storm tide scenarios.

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AdaptWest Climate Adaptation Planning Database

Planners can access data and detailed information for much of North America to compare conservation approaches and inform planning.

Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service

This comprehensive suite of graphical forecast products shows a range of information on current and projected river levels for almost 4,000 stations in the contiguous United States.

AgBiz Logic

Farmers, ranchers, and land managers can use this suite of digital tools to aid in economic, financial, and environmental decision making.

Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF) Toolbox

This downloadable GIS toolset can help conservation planners, landowners, and researchers better manage watershed runoff while supporting agricultural production, as well as to identify appropriate locations for implementing conservation options in a watershed.

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Alaska Coastal Change Viewer

Alaskan residents and land managers can use this viewer to explore the extent and rate of coastal change.

Glaciers, land, shoreline, and ocean in satellite view of Alaska

Alaska Ocean Observing System | An IOOS Regional Data Portal

This regional IOOS portal offers interactive maps and tools to help users find and use data of interest for Alaska and the Arctic.

Alaska Online Aquatic Temperature Site (AKOATS)

Researchers can access this Alaska-wide catalog of mapped stream and lake temperature monitoring locations that use a common set of attributes.

Annual Greenhouse Gas Index

Compare the total warming effect of heat-trapping gases in Earth's atmosphere to their level in 1990.

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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.

Arctic LCC Projections

Access maps, images, and animations of baseline and projected temperature and precipitation for northern Alaska and western Canada.

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Beach and Tidal Inlet Habitat Inventories—North Atlantic

This series of reports, databases, and imagery from Google Earth inventorying beach and tidal inlet habitats from Maine to Virginia assesses impacts of Hurricane Sandy on the North Atlantic coastline.

Bioenergy Knowledge Discovery Framework

Access datasets, publications, and models that support development of a bioenergy industry for the United States from this comprehensive resource. Use the site's map interface to visualize, analyze, download, and/or export geospatial data.

Biofuels Atlas

Compare and analyze biomass feedstocks, biofuels infrastructure, and biofuels use in the United States on this interactive map. Users can zoom to a region or state and conduct a range of simple analyses with selected data.

Biopower Atlas

Compare and analyze biomass feedstocks, biopower infrastructure, and environmental impacts in the United States on this interactive map. Zoom to a region or state and conduct a range of simple analyses with selected data.

Cal-Adapt

California residents and city and county planners can identify potential climate change risks in specific areas throughout the state and access easy-to-understand resources for local planning efforts.

Carbon Storage in Forests

Examine estimates for total carbon storage in forests in the contiguous United States, and trends of how stored carbon changed from 1990 to 2013.

CarbonScapes

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

CarbonTracker

Access outputs, inputs, and/or code for this carbon dioxide measuring and modeling system that tracks sources and sinks around the globe.

Map of Puerto Rico with speckles of color indicating a rain forecast

Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System (CARICOOS) | An IOOS Regional Data Portal

Find marine and coastal weather and climate data, forecasts, and analyses for the Caribbean region.

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Caribbean Marine Maps

Interactive maps including satellite imagery, airborne imagery, and data from drones and divers are available to help advance ocean conservation and climate adaptation.

Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System (CeNCOOS) | An IOOS Regional Data Portal

CeNCOOS provides real-time information and forecasts for harmful algal blooms, advances integrated assessment tools for Marine Protected Areas, and facilitates animal telemetry and other emerging technologies.

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.

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 at a Glance Application

Comprehensively explore the question “Climate variability or climate change?”

Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal

Explore questions related to climate change impacts on human health through this online database of global scientific literature on the topic.

Climate Change Pressures in the 21st Century

This Story Map features three metrics that influence plant growth and survival and displays mapped projections of change throughout the century for the conterminous United States.

Image of the California coastline from the Cal-Adapt website.

Climate Commons

California land and resource managers can find information, maps, tools, and data to support climate-smart conservation in their regions. The California Landscape Conservation Cooperative offers resources for getting started and going deeper with adaptation plans.

Climate Explorer

Explore climate projections for any county in the contiguous United States or borough in Alaska. Compare maps of past and projected conditions for coming decades. Consult historical records to see when weather has veered outside of normal climate.

Climate Mapper Tool

Explore interactive maps for the contiguous United States that display relevant past and projected future climate information to assist with decisions related to agriculture, drought, and fire conditions.

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.

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.

Coastal Resilience

Coastal planning officials 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.

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