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National Integrated Drought Information System: Data, Maps and Tools

https://www.drought.gov/drought/data-maps-tools

This is a extensive collection of maps, data, and tools that students can use to research drought and its impacts on agriculture, wildfires, water supply, vegetation, soil moisture, temperature and ...

Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/

This set of interactive data visualizations show the weather and climate events that have had the greatest economic impact on the US from 1980 to 2016.

Is Climate Change Just a Lot of Hot Air?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEQghbA3pLM&feature=yout...

This short video illustrates how warming ocean temperature is a major factor in climate change, particularly the increase in severity of extreme weather (notably storms and drought).

Drought in the Colorado Basin

https://www.doi.gov/water/owdi.cr.drought/en/#Introduction

This series of visualizations is part of a rich multi-agency effort to showcase the usefulness of open data (i.e., data provided in a discoverable, sharable, and machine-readable format) by exploring ...

ESRI Drought Tracker

http://livingatlas.arcgis.com/drought/

Using US Drought Monitor data and its classification system, this interactive tool tracks drought in the continental US by county, from 2000 to the present.

Climate Change, After the Storm

https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/teaching_materials/g...

This 3-activity sequence addresses the question: &amp;quot;To what extent should coastal communities build or rebuild?&amp;quot; The activity uses social science and ...

Why Climate Change Makes Stronger Storms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K2s2EjsXJI

This video reviews how increasing temperatures in the Arctic are affecting the path of the jet stream, the severity of storms, and the length of individual weather events (rain, storms, drought).

Hurricanes and Climate

https://scied.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/files/activit...

In this activity, students use maps and data to learn about where and how hurricanes form and possible correlations with climate change affecting their strength.

Extreme Weather and Climate Change

http://sphere.ssec.wisc.edu/20140305/

This video explores what scientists know about how changes in global climate and increasing temperatures affect different extreme weather events.

The Effect of Sea Surface Temperatures on Hurricanes

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/clim10.sci.ess....

This video segment highlights research that supports the idea that warmer oceans generate and sustain more intense hurricanes.

What Could A Hurricane Do To My Home?

http://strategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hurrica...

This activity examines the impacts of hurricanes and storm surges on coastal communities.

Volcanic Hazard from Iceland: Analysis and Implications of the Eyjafjallajokull Eruption

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/rdr/documents/docs-publications-fol...

This report examines the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in Iceland of April 2010. It provides an integrated analysis covering volcanology, geophysics, meteorology, statistics, engineering, hazard and ...

Hurricanes as Heat Engines

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/lesson-plans/stand-alone...

In this activity, students examine the effects of hurricanes on sea surface temperature using NASA data. They examine authentic sea surface temperature data to explore how hurricanes extract heat ...

A Global Issue: The Impacts of Climate Change

http://www.explainingclimatechange.ca/Climate%20Change/L...

This is lesson five of a 9-lesson module. Activity explores the effects of climate change on different parts of the Earth system and on human well-being: polar regions, coral reefs, disease vectors, ...

Weather Girl Goes Rogue

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/weathergirlrogue2012...

This humorous video suggests what might happen if a weather forecaster reported the weather in the context of climate change. There is a sharp contrast between the anchor focusing on short-term ...

Adapting to New Normals: The Heat’s On

http://www.climatecentral.org/videos/web_features/the-ne...

This video describes the impact of extreme heat on Philadelphia in the summer of 2011 and how the city is adapting to new expectations about its weather. It uses this example to introduce the new ...

Baking the Breadbasket: Persistent Drought in the Heartland

http://www.climate.gov/news-features/videos/baking-bread...

In this video, NOAA’s Deke Arndt, Chief of the Climate Monitoring Branch at the National Climatic Data Center, recaps the temperature and precipitation data for the continental US in summer 2012. ...

Ishinomaki Japan Tsunami Before and After Urban 3D Model

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgVw-CPdEKM&sns=fb

This is an urban 3D Model animation showing Ishinomaki, Japan before and after the 2011 tsunami caused severe damage. The before model was created from archival scanned film aerials. The after model ...

Washington: Warming and Fires

https://vimeo.com/6320535

In this Climate Central-produced video scientists in the state of Washington explain a variety of factors related to overall warming trends that have led to increased forest fires in the state and ...

Wildfires Out West

https://vimeo.com/22913881

This video from ClimateCentral looks at the way climate conditions can affect vegetation in the West, and what influence this has on wildfires. Drought and rainfall can have very different wildfire ...

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