NOAA Sea to Sky: Education resource database

Access information, images, analyses, diagnostics of current conditions, forecasts, and projects related to atmospheric rivers.

The NOAA DIVER (Data Integration, Visualization, Exploration, and Reporting) supports natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) efforts following environmental incidents. Samples may be taken from air, water, sediment, oil, even tissue from wildlife. Field teams may also record environmental conditions (e.g., water temperature, salinity, and oxygen levels) and visual observations (e.g., vegetation density, and wildlife counts, indicators of wildlife heath).

Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) maps provide a concise summary of coastal resources that are at risk if an oil spill occurs nearby. Examples of at-risk resources include biological resources (such as birds and shellfish beds), sensitive shorelines (such as marshes and tidal flats), and human-use resources (such as public beaches and parks).

The Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA®) is an online mapping tool that integrates both static and real-time data, such as Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) maps, ship locations, weather, and ocean currents, in a centralized, easy-to-use format for environmental responders and natural resource decision makers. Get started with a tiny tutorial at: https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/data/tiny-tutorials/erma

Extreme events such as heat waves, droughts, tornadoes, and hurricanes affect the United States. The National Centers for Environmental Information provides a variety of information detailing these events categorized by type of event.

From the interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program, the National Climate Assessment (NCA) offers an assessment of the science of climate change and variability and its impacts across the United States, now and throughout this century. The full report is quite long and the summary offers an overview of the document.

This page is starting out with the most basic and most requested NMSP GIS data files (Esri shapefiles and Google KML files). All files on this page are FGDC metadata compliant and additional data will be added as metadata is collected or generated.

GNOME (General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment) is the modeling tool the Office of Response and Restoration's Emergency Response Division uses to predict the possible route, or trajectory, a pollutant might follow in or on a body of water, such as in an oil spill.

The Great Lakes Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA) is a tool for visualizing environmental contaminant data in the region, as well as information on natural resources, habitats, weather, water levels, and currents. Great Lakes ERMA is used to facilitate pollution response, cleanup, and restoration and is the most comprehensive collection of contaminant data in the region. NOAA’s ERMA is a critical tool for equipping experts to coordinate with partners and natural resource managers, including the Environmental Protection Agency, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, and State and Tribal partners, across the Great Lakes region.

IOOS is a major data repository that provides data about marine environments, including analyses of historical data, alerts based on current conditions, and forecasts of future conditions based on model predictions. IOOS links to hundreds of data sources operated by regional ocean observing systems across the United States and its territories. There are many datasets available including interactive maps, numerical data, and graphs and figures.