Tools & Interactives

Compare Arctic sea ice concentration in early and late July 2017. The later image shows a clear retreat of sea ice throughout the Arctic Ocean, especially north of Russia.

Compare infrared-enhanced false color satellite imagery, good for actively burning areas, to natural color, which shows the smoke plume spreading northeast from the fire.

Web map of coldest first day of spring (March 19) recorded at thousands of U.S. weather stations, based on Global Historical Climatology Network data.

Compare the before and after images of the greenness across northern Europe in 2018. Hot and dry conditions turned many green fields brown as the summer progressed.

Drag slider to view images of California on Oct. 5 before the fire, and on Oct. 10, when multiple wildfires raged north of San Francisco.

Predicted number of high tide flooding days in 2018 for almost 100 locations along the East and West Coast of the United States, the Caribbean, and Pacific Ocean.

Compare the before and after images of heavy rains and floods in Peru in February 2017. The pale tan of the normally semi-arid coastal landscape is transformed by the green-up of vegetation.

Compare before and after infrared-enhanced satellite images to see the impact three years of below-average rain has had on reservoirs around Cape Town, South Africa. Water levels have drastically fallen.