DEOS operates and maintains over 80 environmental monitoring platforms and brings in data from over 200 additional environmental monitoring platforms throughout our region. These data are used for a number of purposes: from forecast model initialization to emergency planning to crop water requirements.
Looking for current weather conditions? Check out the National Weather Service maps. You may also click on the state to zoom to a state view and then search by city and state for a look at the local conditions.
Updated daily during the late morning with charts from the previous day, the publication is available for viewing or downloading. Site has a six month archive.
A gateway to reusable climate maps and datasets that document various climate conditions. The section aims to serve officials and professionals who need climate data to inform their decisions or compile a climate adaptation report.
A gateway to reusable climate maps and datasets that document various climate conditions. The section aims to serve officials and professionals who need climate data to inform their decisions or compile a climate adaptation report.
The 2012 edition is an interactive GIS-based map. Users may plant hardiness zones by ZIP code or by state. State, regional, and national images of the map can be downloaded and printed in a variety of sizes and resolutions.
Gateway to information on earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, and more. Many of the Natural Hazard Mission Area programs provide some map or GIS information.
Site offers: Information about real-time earthquakes, online catalog search of archives, seismicity maps and statistics (Earthquakes); US faults, information about seismic hazards in various areas, tools for seismic design values (Hazards); and more...
The FEMA Map Service Center provides links to Flood Maps that may be selected by state, a map viewer that allows either address searches or access via map clicks to Flood Zone information. The site also includes options for download of data from the DFIRM database.
Many water-related subjects are linked from this page, such as River observations, where color-coded values from gauges around the nation show areas that are flooding.
The USGS Volcano Hazards Program (VHP) monitors and studies active and potentially active volcanoes, assesses their hazards, and conducts research on how volcanoes work in order for the USGS to issue "timely warnings" of potential volcanic hazards to emergency-management professionals and the public.
NIDIS (National Integrated Drought Information System) is a multi-agency partnership that coordinates drought monitoring, forecasting, planning, and information at national, state, and local levels across the country.