CLIMATE TOOLS

CIRC's Climate Tools are a series of free, online applications that help sort, sift, systematize, visualize, and apply the volumes of data that have resulted from CIRC's and related climate research. 

The goal is simple.

We want to aid our fellow Pacific Northwest residents as they incorporate climate and weather information—from short-term forecasting (months) to long-term projections (decades)—into adaptation and resource management strategies designed to keep our region’s wildernesses, communities, and businesses resilient and thriving now and into the future.   

The Climate Toolbox

CIRC's Climate Toolbox (formerly The Northwest Climate Toolbox) provides timely climate and weather information to Pacific Northwest farmers, businesses, and resource managers. Filled with tools that map and visualize climate and weather conditions, the Toolbox helps its users better manage their financial and natural resources by giving them the information they need to respond to and plan for weather and climate impacts.

The Northwest Climate Toolbox Workbook

The Northwest Climate Toolbox Workbook provides step-by-step instructions for using the Climate Toolbox. The Toolbox and the workbook are meant to aid and empower you to discover and craft what we are calling climate data stories, narratives outlining the climate impacts and trends relevant to your community. This is the first volume in the Climate Resilience Workbook Series.

The Climate Resilience Workbook Series Facilitation Guide enables individuals to guide members of their community through the processes detailed in the workbooks. The guide includes a model agenda, facilitator's agenda, presentation materials, and guided exercises for each module in the workbook.

The Vulnerability Assessment Workbook 

The Vulnerability Assessment Workbook provides step-by-step instructions for assessing current and projected future climate impacts faced by your community. Use this workbook to build on the climate data analysis and climate data stories you previously created using the Climate Toolbox and The Northwest Climate Toolbox Workbook. This is the second volume in the Climate Resilience Workbook Series.

The Climate Resilience Workbook Series Facilitation Guide enables individuals to guide members of their community through the processes detailed in the workbooks. The guide includes a model agenda, facilitator's agenda, presentation materials, and guided exercises for each module in the workbook.

The Resilience Actions Workbook 

The Resilience Actions Workbook provides tools to help you understand the human landscape of your community and to plan resilience actions that integrate the best available scientific research and tools with your local experience and judgement. Finally, this workbook provides guidance on how to communicate effectively about the process, decisions, and findings. This is the third volume in the Climate Resilience Workbook Series.

The Climate Resilience Workbook Series Facilitation Guide enables individuals to guide members of their community through the processes detailed in the workbooks. The guide includes a model agenda, facilitator's agenda, presentation materials, and guided exercises for each module in the workbook.

Agricultural Data Mining Systems

CIRC’s Data Mining team is currently collecting data from federal, state, and municipal repositories and then sifting through that information using sophisticated data mining techniques empowered by machine learning. The goal is to discover useful patterns and relationships and turn them into science that can be put to work for our fellow Pacific Northwest community members as we plan for climate change. 

Integrated Scenarios

Integrated Scenarios of the Future Northwest Environment (Integrated Scenarios) employs the latest climate science to understand what the Pacific Northwest will look like under climate change throughout this century. 

Climate Engine

The Climate Engine is a single interface tool for enabling access to climate and remotely sensed data hosted on Google Earth Engine (GEE). 

Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook

Climate change stands to affect tribal sovereignty and self-determination, tribal culture, and the community health of Indigenous peoples. The Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook was created to aid tribes as they work to adapt to climate change. The project received funding from the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative with supplemental funding from CIRC and the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute.

The Climate Toolbox vs. Climate Engine

This document outlines the differences, strengths, and synergies between the Climate Toolbox and Climate Engine. Both the Climate Toolbox and Climate Engine use common datasets that address similar concerns related to climate, such as drought and impacts to agriculture. However, the Climate Toolbox and Climate Engine have different functionality and, as a result, different end-users.