EJ tools and resources

NOAA's Weather and Climate Toolkit (WCT) is free, platform-independent software, distributed from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). The WCT allows the visualization and data export of weather and climate data, including Radar, Satellite and Model data. The WCT also provides access to weather/climate web services provided from NCEI and other organizations. 

NOAA maintains climate.gov and the US Climate Resilience Toolkit, which acknowledges that rural, poor, and/or communities of color are hit first and worst by climate changes. Decision makers and citizens can use the toolkit to help document climate hazards that could harm the things you care about, decide which situations you most want to avoid, and come up with workable solutions to reduce your climate-related risks.

Use this web mapping tool to visualize community-level impacts from coastal flooding or sea level rise (up to 10 feet above average high tides). Photo simulations of how future flooding might impact local landmarks are also provided, as well as data related to water depth, connectivity, flood frequency, socio-economic vulnerability, wetland loss and migration, and mapping confidence.

The Climate Explorer is a featured mapping and graphing tool in the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit that gives users a way to check how local climate conditions are projected to change over the coming decades. This information—derived from global climate models—is available for counties and county-equivalents for all 50 states and U.S. territories in the United States. Users can also zoom out to see national-scale maps of climate projections.

The Week-2 global probabilistic extremes forecast tool, is a model guidance tool that applies statistical adjustments to raw Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) model forecasts.These statistical adjustments typically provide more skillful forecasts during the Week-2 period compared to raw model output.

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.

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.

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.

The National Geodetic Survey (NGS), an office of NOAA's National Ocean Service, manages a network of Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) that provide Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data in support of three dimensional positioning, meteorology, space weather, and geophysical applications throughout the United States, its territories, and a few foreign countries. Surveyors, GIS users, engineers, scientists, and the public at large that collect GPS or GNSS data can use CORS data to improve the precision of their positions.