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National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan
ClimoCast is a climate projection tool that shows climate projections up to the year 2100 in four representative greenhouse gas emissions scenarios (SSP126 - 585) and ten major climate simulation models. The tool covers all countries and allows users to compare different scenarios and models, as well as downscale the results to sub-national level. Climate data can be downloaded in CSV format.
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan
Climate Impact Viewer shows the results of a climate change impact assessment based on the Integrated Climate Assessment - Risks, Uncertainties and Society (ICA-RUS) and Comprehensive Research on the Development of Global Climate Change Risk Management Strategies (S-10 Strategic Research Project) supported by the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan. Process-based impact models for multiple sectors were used for future influence projections.
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan
H08 Water Risk Tool is a water risk assessment tool based on a global hydrological model termed H08, which enables detailed assessment of climate change impacts on the global water cycle and water resources. H08 Water Risk Tool displays results of climate change impact assessment in an easy-to-understand manner that allows companies and other users to assess their water risks and consider adaptation measures. H08 calculates the movement of all water in the world from the time rainfall reaches the land to the time it flows out to the sea on a daily basis. The calculation is constrained by meteorological and geographic conditions and incorporates human water use. Taking advantage of the feature of fully process-based simulation, H08 can display the background and factors of water risk assessment results - for example, it can show whether future water shortages are caused by decreasing rainfall or increasing water demand, providing users with useful information to consider specific countermeasures.
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan
A-PLAT Pro is a collection of various climate scenarios. Datasets include CMIP3, CMIP5, ISIMIP, d4PDF at a global scale and down-scaled data in Japan. Data can be downloaded, viewed as a time series or a map, or otherwise analyzed. A-PLAT Pro is managed by the Center for Climate Change Adaptation (CCCA) at NIES. Part of the data collected by CCCA, for which CCCA obtained permission of redistribution, is published here. Please contact CCCA if you wish to obtain user ID and password to access the data. Since some technical knowledge is necessary to handle the datasets, A-PLAT Pro is intended for technical users rather than general public.
Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER) at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan
Global Environmental Database (GED) serves as a database related to global environmental problems with an emphasis on global warming and climate change. It provides quality-controlled long-term open data from global atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial monitoring projects, almost real-time data of greenhouse gas concentrations, results of the research projects at the Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER) in a wide range of fields, and information on analysis support tools.
Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)
ClimatView enables viewing and downloading of monthly world climate data, giving users access to statistics on monthly mean temperatures, total precipitation amounts and related anomalies or ratios for all stations where such data are available. Statistics on monthly means of daily maximum/minimum temperatures and Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) are also provided.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
JASMES (JAXA Satellite Monitoring for Environmental Studies) provides satellite datasets but also information on the current status of the climate variables such as solar radiation reaching the earth's surface (photosynthetically available radiation), cloudiness, snow and sea ice cover, dryness of vegetation (water stress trend), soil moisture, wild fire, precipitation, land and sea surface temperature.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
JAXA Global Rainfall Watch uses multiple satellites, visualizes the world's rain distribution every hour, and provides data.
Earth Observation Research Center (EORC), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
JAXA/EORC Tropical Cyclones Database allows users to search and download tropical cyclones data from multiple satellites in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean from 1997 until present. The database is linked to Tropical Cyclones Real-Time Monitoring, also provided by JAXA/EORC
Earth Observation Research Center (EORC), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
JAXA/EORC Tropical Cyclones Real-Time Monitoring allows users to check information about active and recent (last two months) tropical cyclones/typhoons in Asia, America and Oceania. The real-time monitoring is linked with JAXA/EORC Tropical Cyclones Database, where you can check historical cyclone data.
World Resources Institute (WRI)
AQUEDUCT is set of tools to understand and evaluate water risks around the world. The tools are free online maps: Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, Aqueduct Food, Aqueduct Country Rankings, and Aqueduct Floods. They show water stress, groundwater table decline, coastal floods, droughts, and other water risks. The tools also cover secondary risks such as impact to agriculture and food security.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
FAOSTAT provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings from 1961 to the most recent year available. Detailed, long-term statistics such as crop yield of various crops, producer and consumer prices, emissions, land use, energy use, food security indicators and many other categories are searchable by country or global region.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
FishStatJ is a desktop application designed to disseminate FAO fishery statistical data to the world. FishStatJ's primary aim is to display, refine and export data. However, unlike a spreadsheet software it cannot modify the data, create graphs or perform advanced data analysis. One of FishStatJ’s greatest strength is that it can display species according to several authoritative classifications, such as the International Standard Statistical Classification of Aquatic Animals and Plants (ISSCAAP) or the UN’s Central Product Classification (CPC); and show the scientific name.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Various maps can be displayed on the basis of the images of the Earth Observation Systems Satellites (EOSDIS) provided by the NASA. Information such as population density, population prediction, vegetation, land use, altitude, wind, ocean current, landslide, temperature, and rainfall can be displayed on the map.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
The Climate Inspector is an interactive web application which expands GIS mapping and graphing capabilities to visualize possible temperature and precipitation changes throughout the 21st century. With Climate Inspector you can explore how temperature and precipitation may change based on different emission trajectories (i.e., Representative Concentration Pathways), investigate climate changes around the globe and through time, inspect climate trends, variability and uncertainty, and download maps and data.
GEO BON (The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network)
GEO BON is a global biodiversity observation network whose mission is to improve the acquisition, coordination and delivery of biodiversity observations and related services to users including decision makers and the scientific community.
Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
The GEOSS Portal offers a single internet access point to Earth observation data, information and knowledge from all over the world for users from different disciplines. The portal has an easy-to-use interface to discover and access ever-growing quantities of GEO resources. Through the Portal, the GEOSS (Group on Earth Observation System of Systems) Platform connects the users to the collections of databases and other portals and provides reliable information.
Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC)
Accessing disaster information can be a time consuming and laborious task. Not only is data scattered but frequently identification of the disaster can be confusing in countries with many disaster events. To address both of these issues, Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) proposed a globally common Unique ID code for disasters. This idea was shared and promoted by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) of the University of Louvain in Brussels (Belgium), OCHA/ReliefWeb, OCHA/FSCC, ISDR, UNDP, WMO, IFRC, OFDA-USAID, FAO, La Red and the World Bank and was jointly launched as a new initiative "GLIDE.
Stanford University
InVEST is a suite of free, open-source software models used to map and value the goods and services from nature that sustain and fulfill human life. It helps explore how changes in ecosystems can lead to changes in the flows of various benefits to people. If properly managed, ecosystems yield a flow of services that are vital to humanity, including the production of goods (e.g., food), life-support processes (e.g., water purification), and life-fulfilling conditions (e.g., beauty, recreation). Despite its importance, this natural capital is scarcely monitored. InVEST enables decision makers to assess quantified tradeoffs associated with alternative management choices and to identify areas where investment in natural capital can enhance human development and conservation. InVEST is part of the Natural Capital Project (NatCap) at the Stanford University.
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems (ISME)
TroCEP is a portal that provides information on tropical coastal ecosystems: world distribution maps, plant species lists and ecosystem functions, especially related to the global distribution of mangroves. This information contributes to a deepened understanding of tropical coastal ecosystems and stimulates further discussion on these ecosystems.
Stockholm Environment Institute
WEAP (Water Evaluation and Planning System) is a software tool for integrated water resources planning. It provides a comprehensive, flexible and user-friendly framework for policy analysis. As a database, WEAP provides a system for maintaining water demand and supply information. As a forecasting tool, WEAP simulates water demand, supply, runoff, streamflows, storage, pollution generation, treatment and discharge, and instream water quality. As a policy analysis tool, WEAP evaluates a full range of water development and management options, and takes into account multiple and competing uses of water systems. WEAP software tool can be downloaded from the website upon registration. However, to access all features of the tool, user must have a valid license. License fee varies for different types of users, and some users are entitled to a free license (no license fee), as specified on the WEAP website.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC)
The Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS) is designed to simulate the complete hydrologic processes of dendritic watershed systems. The software includes many traditional hydrologic analysis procedures such as event infiltration, unit hydrographs, and hydrologic routing. HEC-HMS also includes procedures necessary for continuous simulation including evapo-transpiration, snowmelt, and soil moisture accounting. Advanced capabilities are also provided for gridded runoff simulation using the linear quasi-distributed runoff transform (ModClark). Supplemental analysis tools are provided for model optimization, forecasting streamflow, depth-area reduction, assessing model uncertainty, erosion and sediment transport, and water quality.
The software features a completely integrated work environment including a database, data entry utilities, computation engine, and results reporting tools. A graphical user interface allows the user seamless movement between the different parts of the softwa...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC)
The River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) software allows users to perform one-dimensional steady flow, one and two-dimensional unsteady flow calculations, sediment transport/mobile bed computations, and water temperature/water quality modeling.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), EORC
Altitude maps Digital Surface Models (DSMs) can be displayed based on JAXA provided satellites (ALOS) images. It is possible to grasp the outline of the topography in the vicinity of the target land. It can be used to investigate exposure to hazards and vulnerabilities.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
G-Portal offers earth observation data free of charge for use in various fields. It is a portal system allowing users to search and download products acquired by JAXA's Earth observation satellite. Data are searchable from various geophysical quantities (precipitation, snow depth, vegetation, ocean color, etc.) classified by atmosphere, cryosphere, terrestrial and ocean groups. Data are also searchable by spacecraft/sensor. No registration is required to search the data, but it is required for download.
Warren Pinnacle Consulting, Inc.
The Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) is a mathematical model that simulates potential impacts of long-term sea level rise on wetlands and shorelines. It addresses various wetland scenarios, including inundation, erosion, overwash, saturation, and salinity. Map distributions of wetlands are predicted under conditions of accelerated sea level rise, and results are summarized in tabular and graphical form. SLAMM can be downloaded from the website. It further requires ArcGIS for viewing outputs in a mapping environment, and a software such as Microsoft Excel to view the tabular output.
OpenGeoSys developers
OpenGeoSys (OGS) is a scientific open source project for the development of numerical methods for the simulation of thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes in porous and fractured media. OGS been successfully applied in the fields of contaminant hydrology, water resources and waste management, geotechnical applications, geothermal energy systems and energy storage.
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
EM-DAT (Emergency Events Database) contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 22,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to the present day. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies. The main objective of the database is to serve the purposes of humanitarian action at national and international levels. The initiative aims to rationalize decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as provide an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting. Non-commercial users have full access to the EM-DAT Database) upon registration.
ICHARM The International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management under the auspices of UNESCO
RRI model is a two-dimensional model capable of simulating rainfall-runoff and flood inundation simultaneously (Sayama et al., 2012). The main features include: 1. Rainfall-runoff and inundation simultaneously with diffusion wave approximations.
2. Subsurface flow (lateral subsurface and vertical infiltration) is simulated for physical representations of rainfall-runoff processes. 3. One-dimensional diffusive wave river routing and its interaction with the slope model.
pyQGIS cookbook
A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System. QGIS is a professional GIS application that is built on top of and proud to be itself Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
University of Tsukuba, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Hokkaido University
The S8 SI-CAT Downscaler (S8DS) is a pseudo global warming downscaling service to support climate adaptation efforts. The S8DS service is a user-friendly tool to support governmental personnel in making informed decisions for policies, programs, and projects, by putting the best available research-based evidence at the heart of policy development and implementation.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
NCAR Climate Data Guide (CDG) is a database where you can search and access 214 data sets coverring the Atmosphere, Ocean, Land and more.You can explore climate indices, reanalyses and satellite data, and understand their application to climate model metrics.CDG provides concise and reliable information on the strengths and limitations of the key observational data sets, tools and methods used to evaluate Earth system models and to understand the climate system. Citable expert commentaries are authored by experienced data users and developers, enabling scientists to multiply the impacts of their work and the diverse user community to access and understand the essential data.
University of East Anglia (UEA)
Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (UEA) provides various datasets on its website, including instrumental climate data (e.g., temperature, precipitation and drought, climate data for individual locations), palaeoclimate data, reanalysis climate data, climate model data and future climate projections, and other. The various datasets on the CRU website are provided for all to use, provided the source is acknowledged. Datasets are managed by a variety of people and projects within CRU, which endeavours to update the majority of the data pages at timely intervals although this cannot be guaranteed by specific dates.
Potsdam Institute for Climae Impact Research (PIK), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
ISIMIP is a community-driven climate-impacts modelling initiative. It offers a consistent framework for cross-sectoral, cross-scale modelling of the impacts of climate change. An international network of climate-impact modellers contribute to a comprehensive picture of the world under different climate-change scenarios. You can access ISIMIP data as external user (via ISIMIP repository), or as an active ISIMIP participant (if you are contributing simulations following the ISIMIP protocol).
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
The Streamflow prediction application is the collection of river network created within specific countries which has the unique ID which then is connected to the database to have the 48-hours forecast. The user can interact by clicking this river network. This application can be a part of a DSS tool for flood forecasting and give an early warning system to the user.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), European Research Area for Climate Services (ERA4CS)
ISIpedia is an online portal for national-level, cross-sectoral climate-impact assessments, based on state-of-the-art climate-impacts simulations from the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP). ISIpedia, as a database of scientific studies (articles) on observed climate impacts, model evaluation and future projections, provides public access to climate-impact science to generate a better understanding of climate related risks.
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia
INDRA is a geospatially enabled big data analytics platform that allows the integration of a range of relevant datasets including climate, natural hazards, infrastructure, demographics and economic metrics to provide data driven critical insights. It is cloud enabled and can be accessed via any of the leading cloud providers and hosted on the web for ease of use and interoperability with other relevant tools. INDRA has been used by cities and utilities to understand their infrastructure risk and to plan for future adaptation, mitigation and financial de-risking strategies. (Australia)
Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM)
Crop Monitor provides open, timely, and science-driven information on crop conditions in support of market transparency (Crop Monitor for AMIS) and early warning of production shortfalls (Crop Monitor for Early Warning). It focuses on four primary crops: wheat, maize, rice, and soybeans. The Crop Monitor for AMIS, developed for the G20 Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS), is an internationally recognized source of information on global crop prospects. It brings together over 40 partners from national, regional (e.g., sub-continental) and global monitoring systems, space agencies, agriculture organizations and universities. The Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) is a source of reliable information on crop conditions in vulnerable countries at risk of food production shortfalls. CM4EW is often used to inform humanitarian organization decisions on food allocation and assisstance.
University of California
WorldClim is a database of high spatial resolution global weather and climate data. These data can be used for mapping and spatial modeling. The data are provided for use in research and related activities, and some specialized skill and knowledge is needed to use them. You can download gridded weather and climate data for historical (near current) and future conditions.
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF)
The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) coordinates the design and distribution of global climate model simulations of the past, current and future climate. CMIP is conducted under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and is now at its 6th phase (CMIP6). It provides invaluable simulation data for better understanding of climate and climate change. You can access datasets from CMIP6 simulations through the CMIP6 Search Interface, and additional information about CMIP6 is available via other sources linked on the WCRP CMIP6 website. The complete archive of CMIP6 output is available for search and download via any of four portals listed on the WCRP CMIP6 website [(USA, PCMDI/LLNL), (France, IPSL), (Germany, DKRZ), (UK, CEDA)]
The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Network (GEO BON)
BON in a Box is a regionally customizable and continually updated online toolkit for facilitating the start-up or enhancement of national or regional biodiversity observation systems. It provides acccess to the latest biodiversity observation design, data collection protocols, and data management, analysis and reporting tools. It serves as a technology transfer and capacity building mechanism to ensure users have access to the best and most up-to-date tools and technologies for building a biodiversity observation system. Database includes monitoring methods and guidelines, mapping software, data management tools and platforms and other items, searchable by monitoring techniques, essential biodiversity variables (EBV) classes and other filters.
Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) , CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
CCAFS-Climate data portal provides global and regional future high-resolution climate datasets that serve as a basis for assessing the climate change impacts and adaptation in a variety of fields including biodiversity, agricultural and livestock production, and ecosystem services and hydrology.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
IPCC Data Distribution Center (DDC) provides climate, socio-economic and environmental data, both from the past and also in scenarios projected into the future. Technical guidelines on the selection and use of different types of data and scenarios are also provided. The DDC is designed primarily for climate change researchers, but the materials may also be of interest to educators, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and the general public.
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
APCC (APEC Climate Center) provides a variety of climate information services, including Seasonal Forecast (6-month climate outlooks, updated monthly), BSISO Forecast (Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation Forecast in the Asian monsoon region from May to October), Climate Monitoring (global drought and flood monitoring information), CLIK (provides downloadable climate prediction data managed by APCC), and other services.
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
ECMWF Datasets include real-time and archive forecasts, analyses, climate re-analyses, reforecasts and multi-model datasets. Access to the datasets depends on the type of the user, as specified on the ECMWF website (e.g. ECMWF members, researchers, public). User registration is required to download the data.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
GIEWS (Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture) monitors food supply and demand and other key indicators for assessing the food security situation in all countries. GIEWS collects various data for its activities, and to facilitate widespread use of these datasets in the policy making by individual countries, it has developed several web-based tools: Country Cereal Balance Sheet, Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) Tool, Earth Observation for Crop Monitoring, and Food Aid Shipments.
GOSAT Project, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan
GOSAT Animations are visualizations of global carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions since 2009 until recently, based on the GOSAT Data Archive Service. Animation is displayed after the user selects options in the filters and presses "View. In the GOSAT Project, a satellite (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite, GOSAT) observes the Earth with onboard sensors which measure infrared light reflected and emitted from the Earth's surface and the atmosphere. From these observational data, CO2 and CH4 concentrations are calculated. The purpose of the GOSAT project is to estimate emissions and absorptions of the greenhouse gases (GHG) on a subcontinental scale, and the CO2 and CH4 animations are one of the products of the project.
High Plains Regional Climate Center (HPRCC)
ACIS Climate Maps are a collection of temperature and precipitation maps across the USA. The following data are available: precipitation (absolute, departure from normal, and percent of normal), Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI); temperature (absolute, departure from normal, average maximum and minimum, etc); cooling degree days and heating degree days (absolute and departure from normal). Users can select a specific US region or states for more spatially detailed map, and choose from various timescales. Displayed maps can be downloaded as image files. Data can also be downloaded from the HPRCC GIS Portal, allowing users to create their own custom maps.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
IPCC WGI Interactive Atlas enables users to explore much of the climate change information in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report contributed by the Working Group I (WGI). The Interactive Atlas has two components: regional information and regional synthesis. In the first component - regional information - users can generate global and regional maps and graphs of observed and projected climate change for different key variables (temperature, precipitation, snowfall, CO2 anthropogenic emissions and other), specific seasons of the year, time periods, emission scenarios and climate models. To accomodate users with different needs, regional information includes two alternative interfaces: simple (mainly for the general public, media, teachers and decision makers) and advanced (mainly for researchers and practitioners). The second component - regional synthesis - provides information about changes in Climate Impact Drivers (CIDs) in categories such as extreme heat, cold spell, river or co...
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
This tool allows users in USA to learn more about coastal flooding and sea level rise, calculate current and future coastal flood frequency and impacts, determine if, when, and how the stormwater system in the user's community will be impacted, and learn different ways to mitigate flooding issues.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
DesInventar Sendai is a Disaster Information Management System used as a conceptual and methodological tool to help users analyze disaster trends and their impacts through systematic collection, documentation, and analysis of data about losses caused by disasters associated with natural hazards. It contains datasets of more than 89 countries. Users can view a country’s ‘disaster profile’ or find information about a specific type of disaster in a specific country (e.g., tropical cyclones in Fiji). Disaster types include weather-related events (tsunami, droughts, wildfires, etc.), geological events (earthquakes, volcanoes, etc.), and man-made disasters (accidents, industrial fires, etc.). Effects of disasters have been categorized into 4 groups: Related to people, Related to homes, Related to infrastructure, and Economic losses.
Germanwatch
The Global Climate Risk Index is an annual report that analyses which countries and regions are affected most by extreme weather events (storms, floods, heat waves, etc.). It analyzes and ranks the extent to which countries and regions have been affected by the impacts of climate change by quantifying fatalities and economic losses that occurred, compiling a list of the ten most affected countries. The Climate Risk Index (CRI) score indicates the level of exposure and vulnerability of the countries to extreme weather events and examines both absolute and relative impacts. A low CRI score indicates high vulnerability of a country. This report is published annually by Germanwatch, an independent non-profit and environmental organization based in Germany.
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