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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.
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.
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
Realtime, recent, and forecasted hydrologic data with tools and forecasts for the Colorado River Basin.
Open data portal for Colorado River GIS data.
Provisional natural flow of the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, AZ.
A web-based clearinghouse for scientific and technical information relevant to the Colorado River Basin and the management of its water resources and related natural resources. The Clearinghouse is intended to be useful to managers and other decision-makers, to researchers, to the media, and to the broader public.
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.
Interactive map viewer showing daily snow coverage across the Western United States that allows users to explore variables like total snow cover, snow water equivalent (SWE), albedo, and radiative forcing. Summary data can be produced for States, Regions, and HUC basins. Check out the snow-viewer guide here: Snow viewer guide.
Tools, maps, and data from drought.gov focused on the Colorado River Basin
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.
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.
The intermountain West Climate Dashboard provides situational awareness of climate, drought, and water resources for Colorado and Wyoming.
wwa.colorado.edu/resources/intermountain-west-climate-dashboard
The Internet of Water Principles were originally developed during the Aspen Institute Dialog Series on Water Data, and published in the 2017 report “The Internet of Water: Sharing and Integrating Water Data for Sustainability.” In 2021, the Principles were revised in consultation with the Advisory Board of the Nicholas Institute’s Internet of Water Project to reflect lessons learned over the first three years of project implementation.
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.
Outlook maps for wildfire potential across the USA, updated on the first work day of each month.
NRCS Interactive Map customized to show the adjusted streamflow for the current water-year-to-date, as a % of the period-of-record average. Click on a gage of interest to bring up a popup, click on the popup to expand it, and then click on Data Reports and either Water Year Table or Water Year Chart for the current year’s monthly flows. For historical flows at that gage, open the Water Year Table, click on the Create/Modify Report tab in the upper left. When the tab opens, click the first checkbox for ‘stream volume, adjusted’ then below that, change Time Period to “Period of Record”, then click on the View Report tab at upper left.
Interactive map viewer of all the hydrological monitoring sites run by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Colorado River Basin.
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.
This website compiles USGS resources and data related to principal aquifers including Aquifer Basics, principal aquifers maps and GIS data, and the National Aquifer Code Reference List.
usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/principal-aquifers-united-states
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.
Science Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management—and perils in the mismanagement—of water in the western United States. It seems deceptively simple: even when clear evidence was available that the Colorado River could not sustain ambitious dreaming and planning by decision-makers throughout the twentieth century, river planners and political operatives irresponsibly made the least sustainable and most dangerous long-term decisions.
Map explorer utilizing 10-meter resolution Sentinal-2 imagery 2017 – 2022 allowing for analysis of land use and land cover change.
A data repository for socioeconomic and demographic data.
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.
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.