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.
ADCIRC simulates tidal circulation and storm surge propagation over large computational domains, eliminating the need for imposing approximate open-water boundary conditions that can create inaccuracies in model results, while simultaneously providing high resolution in areas of complex shoreline and bathymetry where it is needed to maximize simulation accuracy.
Targeted areas for ADCIRC application include continental shelves, nearshore coastal areas, inlets and estuaries.
Typical ADCIRC applications include the following:
Every spring, ranchers face the same difficult challenge—trying to guess how much grass will be available for livestock to graze during the upcoming summer. This innovative forecast tool can help producers in the Great Plains reduce this economically important source of uncertainty.
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.
PINEMAP—which stands for "Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation Project"—contains 13 tools related to planted loblolly pine forests in the southeastern United States across four categories: Environment, Establishment, Management, and Production.
CHARM is a mapping application that gives local officials, stakeholders, and citizens the power to map and analyze growth with real-time feedback. When used with the weTable—a low cost, do-it-yourself, interactive tabletop approach for public engagement (instructions provided on the CHARM website)—it forms a powerful planning tool for engaging the public and gathering their values about the community’s future. The application is supported with a library of mapping data, including data on urbanization, storm surges, conservation, public facilities, and coastal resources.
Convergence represents a collaboration among climatologists, public health researchers and professionals, environmental scientists, social science researchers, and community stakeholders to identify and address the impact of extreme weather and climate events on communities in the Carolinas.
This online resource provides Carolinas-focused information about extremes (drought, heavy rainfall) and normal precipitation patterns. The atlas includes over 1,000 downloadable maps and figures characterizing various measures of precipitation and drought. It offers information not readily available from other sources, such as frequency and duration of both dry and wet events and photographs, videos, graphics, and narratives focused on the impacts of notable drought and heavy precipitation events in the Carolinas.
The objective of this tool is to georeference aerial photographs from 1930 for the coastal areas of Puerto Rico—specifically the area covering at least one kilometer inland from the coastline—to a geographic coordinate system (NAD 83 PR State Plane), allowing for their for their use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and consequently spatial analysis with other geographic data of the island. The georeferenced photographs can be downloaded from the tool's website.
This online, Spanish-language viewer allows users to visualize changes in Puerto Rico's coastal areas since the year 1930, providing a quick understanding of coastal land cover changes resulting from processes such as natural hazard exposure, modification of natural barriers, coastal erosion, coastal urban development, and others. The tool can also be used to identify areas for potential ecological restoration, community-based projects, and scientific studies.