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A most comprehensive guide to climate change portals and tools for the Western U.S. This guide can help communities navigate the myriad of different climate tools in order to get climate data for a variety of purposes. Provides comparison table of over 20 different climate tools.
The AWE Sales Forecasting and Rate Model is a new analytical tool that can explicitly model the effects of rate structures. Typical water rate models assume that future sales are known with certainty, and do not respond to price, weather, the economy, or supply shortages — that is to say, not the world we live in. The AWE Sales Forecasting and Rate Model addresses this deficiency and enables analysis of the following:
- Customer Consumption Variability – weather, drought/shortage, or external shock
- Demand Response – Predicting future block sales (volume and revenue) with empirical price elasticities
- Drought Pricing – Contingency planning for revenue neutrality
- Probability Management – Risk theoretic simulation of revenue risks
- Fiscal Sustainability – Sales forecasting over a 5 Year Time Horizon
financingsustainablewater.org/tools/awe-sales-forecasting-and-rate-model
Tool for understanding water-related risks and assessing exposure to water risk worldwide. Including 13 indicators of baseline water quality and future water quality. The atlas includes tools for prioritizing basins based on their indicators.
Training and webinars on how to use NASA’s remote sensing products in applications to build capacity, to conduct custom analyses, develop indicators, and solve problems. Topic areas include agriculture, climate & resilience, disasters, ecological conservation, health & air quality, and water resources.
A diverse set of climate viewing tools available though one portal, the climate toolbox offers many ways to analyze and view past data and future projections
Now known as CroplandCROS, this geospatial data product hosts the Cropland Data Layer (CDL). The app allows users to geolocate farms and map areas of interest. To aid users, the app features a user guide and instructional videos.
A web map explorer that allows users to explore the Cropland Data Layer, analyze and download summary statistics and data for particular areas, it is currently being replaced by the CroplandCROS web application.
FEW-View™ is an online educational tool that helps U.S. residents and community leaders visualize their supply chains, with an emphasis on food, energy, and water. This tool lets you see the hidden connections and benchmark your supply chain’s sustainability, security, and resilience.
A series of maps and products relating to wildfire potential and fire danger forecasts.
Storymap, dashboard, and reports connecting national forests to water supplies across the U.S. Explore your watershed using the Data Explorer tool.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/4e450a6c7ed24f0cbae4abc1c07843b7?item=1
The U.S. Forest Change Assessment Viewer: ForWarn II is a Satellite-Based Change recognition and Tracking tool.
The Metrics Report assists communities in measuring progress towards integrating water and land use planning. Data-informed decisions lead to intentional adaptations. This guidebook recommends common metrics, and how to collect this data at community, regional, and state scales.
sonoraninstitute.org/resource/growing-water-smart-metrics-report/
Storymap connecting wildfire to U.S. Water Supplies highlighting connections and featuring compelling datasets.
labs.waterdata.usgs.gov/visualizations/fire-hydro/index.html#/
A myriad of vulnerability and resilience indicators and methods used to calculate them. These methods and tools underly the National Risk Index maps.
Dashboard showing the status of surface water and surface water storage in the upper Colorado River Basin.
An interactive map viewer and data download tool to look at wildfire perimeters and burn severity from 1984 to present.
The Enhanced Visualization and Analysis tool lets users compare land use change by county between 2001 and 2019.
A highly versatile data viewing tool containing MACAv2 downscaled CMIP5 projections.
Interactive Map that allows analysis of natural hazard risks, expected annual losses, social vulnerability, and community resilience across states, counties and census blocks. Comparison tool allows you to compare multiple jurisdictions. Summary reports can be downloaded.
OpenET uses the best available science to provide easily accessible satellite-based estimates of evapotranspiration (ET) for improved water management across the western United States.
A comparison tool allowing the user to examine multiple gridded population datasets.
A free online application that provides simple and fast access to geospatial vegetation data for U.S. Rangelands. The tool was developed to provide landowners, resource managers, and conservationists with access to data that can inform management.
Map explorer utilizing 10-meter resolution Sentinal-2 imagery 2017 – 2022 allowing for analysis of land use and land cover change.
A data viewing tool that was developed as part of the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit, The Climate Explorer creates simple charts and maps easily.
The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit is a website designed to help people find and use tools, information, and subject matter expertise to build climate resilience. The Toolkit offers information from across the U.S. federal government in one easy-to-use location.
Insight report available for purchase which offers insight and analysis on water and wastewater utility pricing in 50 U.S. metropolitan areas highlighting trends.
bluefieldresearch.com/research/u-s-municipal-water-wastewater-utility-rate-index-2022/
A collection of tools and dashboards highlighting utilities rates in various states. Water Rates dashboards for Arizona and California can be found here, though no other Colorado River Basin states are currently represented.
The Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP), is a physically-based soil erosion prediction technology. WEPP has a number of customized interfaces developed for common applications such as roads, managed forests, forests following wildfire, and rangelands. It also has a large database of cropland soils and vegetation scenarios. The WEPP model is a distributed parameter, continuous simulation model, and is able to describe a given erosion concern in great detail for an experienced user.