Climate + Weather Tools

We have developed a diverse suite of interactive web tools to help make Alaska climate and weather data more accessible and relevant to your region and areas of interest. We thank our collaborators, who offer modeling skill, programming expertise, funding, and other support:

Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy
Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center
International Arctic Research Center
+ many other partners

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Academic Researchers

People in research fields interested in complex and specialized data that can be downloaded and analyzed.

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Technical Professionals

Includes meteorologists, engineers, and others who do forecasting or other applied technical work.

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Decision Makers

Non-technical audiences seeking simpler data visualizations for management and planning.

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Enthusiasts + Media

Non-technical tools for journalists and those with a local or personal interest in climate and weather.

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Find source code for tools + data processing utilities on Github

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About Climate Data: Explains basic climate terms and shows you how you can use climate data in your work.
Analog Forecasting: Explores connections between climate variables and uses past conditions to predict possible scenarios for the future.
Climate Scenarios for the NWT: See climate projections for Northwest Territories locations under different scenarios.
Community Climate Charts: Climate histories and projections for communities across Alaska and Canada.
Community Permafrost Data: Explore permafrost risks and hazards for rural communities in Alaska.
Community Wind: Displays recorded hourly wind data 1980-2014 and projected data 1980-2099 for 67 Alaska communities.
Environmental Impacts to Access in Interior Alaska: Stories of environmental conditions affecting travel to areas used for subsistence.
Extreme Weather: Explore the frequency of extreme temperature and wind events 1958-2100.
Fire Tally: Compare the current year's daily tally of acres burned to high fire years since daily records began in 2004.
Garden Helper: Explore how growing conditions in your part of Alaska may change as the climate warms.
Historical Sea Ice Atlas: View maps of sea ice data collected 1850-present from the seas off northern Alaska.
Integrated Arctic Management: Displays Arctic geospatial datasets from various environmental, economic, and cultural categories to see where they overlap.
Sea Ice and Wind: See projected interactions between sea ice concentrations and extreme wind events.
Statewide Temperature Index: See daily average temperatures across Alaska compared to the historical average.
Weather and Climate Highlights: Daily, multi-day, monthly, and longer time scale events reported by the NOAA National Weather Service and displayed on a map.
Wildfires: Past and Present: See locations and sizes of wildfires in relation to long-term fire history, land cover types, and more.