A searchable database of education resources created by NOAA and our partners — filtered by the climate topic
Visualize community-level impacts from coastal flooding or sea level rise (up to 10 feet above average high tides).
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.
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.
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.
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.