Northwest Climate Toolbox
This website's tools provide maps and site-specific graphs of climate and hydrology summaries (past and projected future), along with information and access to data source information, for the northwestern United States.
Northern Great Plains
Climate Service Providers Database | NOAA Western Region
This website provides an easy-to-use, searchable directory of the more than 130 public-sector and nonprofit climate service providers offering services for the eleven western states in NOAA's Western Region (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming).
Missouri River Basin Region Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook
The Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Missouri River Basin Region—which includes parts of Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming—provides a summary of the region's weather and climate impacts from the previous quarter, and outlooks for conditions during the coming quarter.
State Climate Summaries
These state summaries were produced to meet a demand for state-level information in the wake of the Third U.S. National Climate Assessment, released in 2014. The summaries cover assessment topics directly related to NOAA’s mission, specifically historical climate variations and trends, future climate model projections of climate conditions during the 21st century, and past and future conditions of sea level and coastal flooding. Click on each state to see key messages, figures, and and a summary of climate impacts in your state.
Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF) Toolbox
The Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF) is an approach for applying concepts of precision conservation to watershed planning in agricultural landscapes. To enable application of the framework, the U.S.
West-Wide Climate Risk Assessments
The West-Wide Climate Risk Assessments (WWCRA) provide a consistent, baseline assessment of climate change impacts to water supply and demand across the West. The baseline assessments conducted through WWCRA evaluate risks to water supplies related to changes in snowpack, changes in timing and quantity of runoff, and changes in groundwater recharge and discharge. WWCRAs also evaluate risks to water supplies related to increase in the demand for water as a result of increasing temperatures and reservoir evaporation rates.
NEWA—Network for Environment and Weather Applications
This website retrieves data from on-farm, grower-owned weather stations throughout the Northeast and in a number of other locations across the U.S. These data are combined with data from existing observations and forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide integrated pest management (IPM) and crop production model results and tabulated weather data summaries to growers. Currently, 30 IPM and crop production tools and 13 degree-day tools are freely available from the NEWA website.
Climate Explorer
The Climate Explorer offers graphs, maps, and downloadable data of observed and projected climate variables for every county in the contiguous United States. The tool offers graphs and maps of climate projections for temperature, precipitation, and related climate variables for two possible futures—one in which humans make a significant attempt to reduce global emissions of heat-trapping gases, and one in which the rate of global emissions continues rising through 2100.
Western Wildfires: A Fiery Future
An analysis of 45 years of U.S. Forest Service records from the western U.S. show that the number of large fires on Forest Service land is increasing dramatically. The area burned by these fires is also growing at an alarming rate.