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This toolkit from the National Drought Mitigation Center provides:

Each station, displayed in a map viewer, provides a long, continuous record of weather data. Indices include pre-generated heat maps, time series, tabular analyses, and more for the Standardized Precipitation Index, the Standardized Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index, the Palmer Drought Severity Index, the self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index, the Standardized Streamflow Index, and more. 

This website has archived the location and height of more than 700 tropical surge events around the world since 1880 and identified more than 8,000 unique high water marks from tropical surges along the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coasts.

These data were mostly built from scientific sources, including government reports, historic maps, academic papers, and books, but anecdotal sources—such as thousands of pages of newspapers—provide data for smaller-magnitude storm surges in the earlier part of the record.

Coastal and offshore resilience projects require integration of wave action into the process. MIKE—21 Spectral Waves tool can be used to:

• Calculate wind-waves in all seas, easily and accurately
• Efficiently transform offshore wave fields to coastal areas
• Create reliable and fit-for-purpose wave data
• Seamlessly integrate MIKE 21 SW with other MIKE models
• Perform quality work at rapid pace

Access to this software is by subscription for single users, small businesses, large corporations, or universities.

To advance ocean conservation and climate adaptation for the 44 million people who call the Caribbean home, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and partners used innovative technologies to develop a set of maps including satellite imagery, airborne imagery, and data from drones and divers.

The Department of Defense's Environmental Reserch Programs offer a publicly available version of the DoD Regional Sea Level (DRSL) database. The database provides regionalized sea level scenarios for three future time horizons (2035, 2065, and 2100) for 1,774 DoD sites worldwide.

Healthy floodplains and wetlands provide critical ecosystem services to local and downstream communities by retaining sediments, nutrients, and floodwaters. Land conversion and degradation diminish floodplain functionality and services. By assessing, quantifying, and valuing the ecosystem services provided by floodplains, we can estimate how floodplains influence human well-being. We can also inform decision makers about the tradeoffs associated with development pressures and conservation priorities.

This online mapping application from FEMA identifies communities exposed to 18 natural hazards, visualizing natural hazard risk metrics and including data about expected annual losses, social vulnerabilities, and community resilience. 

The National Risk Index's interactive web maps present data at the county and census tract level via geographic information system (GIS) feature services for custom analyses. These data layers offer a holistic view of community risk to natural hazards via online maps and data.

The NRI can assist communities in:

The Chucktown Floods site gives municipalities, stakeholders in business and industry, and individual homeowners a way to navigate available resilience tools and data relevant to flooding in the Charleston County area. The site is designed to reduce barriers to accessing data associated with flooding vulnerability and enhance decision making that results in improved resilience to future flooding events in the region.