Climate tools and resources

Straddling the equator, the Amazon River Basin occupies more than a third of South America. Rainfall is seasonal, shifting north of the equator in Northern Hemisphere summer and south of the equator in Northern Hemisphere winter. 
Sea to Sky Climate Resources

A searchable database of education resources created by NOAA and our partners — filtered by the climate topic

Tools such as NOAA’s Digital Coast can help communities prepare for future sea level changes and assess their risk and vulnerability.
Sea-Level Rise Viewer

Visualize community-level impacts from coastal flooding or sea level rise (up to 10 feet above average high tides). 

Screenshot of Climate Explorer tool interface. A search bar says "Explore how climate is projected to change in any county in the United States," and users can enter a city or county.
Climate Explorer

This mapping and graphing tool in the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit allows users to check how local climate conditions are projected to change over the coming decades. 

As Hurricane Michael approached the U.S. in October 2018, a prototype of the Coastal Inundation Dashboard displayed its effects on coastal water levels along the Florida panhandle.
Coastal Inundation Dashboard
Coastal Inundation Dashboard provides real-time water levels, 48-hour forecasts of water levels and historic flooding information at a majority of coastal water level stations operated by the National Ocean Service (NOS) Center for Operational Oceanographic Products & Services (CO-OPS). The product features both a map-based view where users can see which stations across the U.S. may be flooding, and a more detailed station view where real-time water levels and historical data for a specific location are highlighted.
IOOS Sensor Map
Environmental Sensor Map
The Environmental Sensor Map is a tool that allows anyone anywhere to pull up real-time (and historic) ocean, coastal, and meteorological information for U.S. coastal areas and the Great Lakes from any of over 32,000 observing platforms including buoys, moorings, weather stations, high-frequency radar, and many more. Available information includes water and air temperature, wind and wave speed and direction, precipitation, stream height and much more.
Screenshot of NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer tool interface
NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer
In recent years shoreline data have been produced in digital form. Many of the older hardcopy shoreline manuscripts have also been converted to digital form, mostly by projects managed by the NOAA Coastal Services Center. These digital data sets are thought to have value beyond the application to nautical charts, especially for those users conducting GIS analysis and producing special purpose maps in the coastal zone. Historical and comptemporary vector shoreline data can be freely downloaded from NOAA’s Shoreline Data Explorer.