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Summary: This FEMA program helps communities identify, assess, communicate, and mitigate their flood risk through more precise flood mapping products, risk assessment tools, and support for planning and outreach.

Summary: Explore locations and severity of tropical cyclones recorded around the world since 1842.

Summary: View a nationwide listing of known high-accuracy topographic and bathymetric data, with descriptive data and direct links or contact information to access each dataset.

Summary: This guidebook shows how Great Lakes counties and municipalities can use science-based information to address coastal hazards and incorporate concerns for climate change in local planning efforts.

Summary: Coastal managers considering shore protection projects can work with civil engineers to model and measure the potential costs and benefits of protecting existing infrastructure against erosion. Using Beach-fx to generate a realistic model requires substantial data development and analysis. Training is typically required.

Hot on the heels of a new record set in May, average global temperature also reached a record high in June 2014.

Summary: Analysts can produce maps showing the location and value of ecosystem services to inform land use decisions. The downloadable tool set requires a desktop GIS.

Summary: View threats from sea level rise and storm surge for any coastal town or city in the contiguous United States. The site's Risk Finder interface offers additional analyses for selected states.

Summary: Examine detailed maps of New York City to see areas impacted by flooding from Superstorm Sandy and areas likely to be inundated by four different sea level rise scenarios.