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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: List of Selected Natural Hazard Databases." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Investing in Transportation Resilience: A Framework for Informed Choices. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26292.
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141 PORTALS TO DATA, TOOLS, AND TRAINING U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit This toolkit contains a catalog with a wide array (nearly 150 items) of data, data viewers, and analysis tools that are useful for understanding and evaluating natural hazards related to climate resilience. See https://toolkit. climate.gov. DigitalCoast https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast Sea Level Rise Viewer https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/slr.html Land Cover Atlas https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/lca.html The Federal Highway Administration’s Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Tools https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/sustainability/resilience/tools Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Climate Data Processing Tool 2.1 https://fhwaapps.fhwa.dot.gov/cmip Appendix C List of Selected Natural Hazard Databases

142 INVESTING IN TRANSPORTATION RESILIENCE The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Hazus-MH: Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Floods, and Tsunamis https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps/products-tools/hazus The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Climate Monitoring Tools https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-monitoring Temperature, Precipitation, and Drought https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip Climate Extremes Index https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes The U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS’s) Coastal Change Hazards Portal: Extreme Storms, Shoreline Change, and Sea Level Rise https://marine.usgs.gov/coastalchangehazardsportal HAZARD-SPECIFIC TOOLS FEMA’s Flood Maps https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology https://www.sbafla.com/method National Integrated Drought Information System https://www.drought.gov NOAA’s Precipitation Frequency Data Server (Atlas 14) https://www.weather.gov/owp/hdsc Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes Model https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/surge/slosh.php USGS Earthquake Hazards Program—Data and Tools https://www.usgs.gov/natural-hazards/earthquake-hazards/data-tools Unified Hazard Tool https://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/interactive Seismic Design Tools https://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/designmaps

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Significant progress has been made over the last decade in integrating resilience criteria into transportation decision-making. A compelling case remains for investing in making transportation projects more resilient in the face of increasing and intensifying storms, floods, droughts, and other natural hazards that are combining with sea-level rise, new temperature and precipitation norms, and other effects from climate change.

TRB’s Special Report 340: Investing in Transportation Resilience: A Framework for Informed Choices reviews current practices by transportation agencies for evaluating resilience and conducting investment analysis for the purpose of restoring and adding resilience. These practices require methods for measuring the resilience of the existing transportation system and for evaluating and prioritizing options to improve resilience by strengthening, adding redundancy to, and relocating vulnerable assets.

Supplemental to the report is a Report Highlights three-pager.

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