Data sources and partners: Climate change
Riverkeeper Water Quality Portal bibliography
August 29, 2025
Riverkeeper Team
Data and map layers shown on the Riverkeeper Water Quality Portal Climate change page come from a number of open source datasets. The partners who have provided these data are as follows:
Sea level rise projections:
NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer
This tool from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) produces location-specific scenarios for sea level and flooding, as well as information about present-day and past conditions. Local governments and other practitioners can use the information to make informed decisions about strategic adaptation investments. The site incorporates data, maps, and visualizations and produces automated, location-specific reports.
Air temperature and precipitation projections:
New York State Climate Impacts Assessment
The New York State Climate Impacts Assessment explores current and future climate change impacts to New York State communities, ecosystems, and economy. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) assembled more than 250 New York–based, national, and Indigenous climate science experts and representatives from diverse communities and industries across the state to contribute to this assessment. The assessment provides a credible, science-based analysis of what to expect from climate change in New York State. The findings are intended to help residents, businesses, and decision-makers across the state plan and prepare for climate change impacts.
Real time monitoring:
The Hudson River Environmental Conditions Observing System (HRECOS)
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) Hudson River Environmental Conditions Observing System (HRECOS) is managed and operated through a growing collaboration of governmental, academic, and private institutions with a shared interest in the health of the Hudson River watershed including:
Sea level rise projections:
NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer
This tool from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) produces location-specific scenarios for sea level and flooding, as well as information about present-day and past conditions. Local governments and other practitioners can use the information to make informed decisions about strategic adaptation investments. The site incorporates data, maps, and visualizations and produces automated, location-specific reports.
Air temperature and precipitation projections:
New York State Climate Impacts Assessment
The New York State Climate Impacts Assessment explores current and future climate change impacts to New York State communities, ecosystems, and economy. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) assembled more than 250 New York–based, national, and Indigenous climate science experts and representatives from diverse communities and industries across the state to contribute to this assessment. The assessment provides a credible, science-based analysis of what to expect from climate change in New York State. The findings are intended to help residents, businesses, and decision-makers across the state plan and prepare for climate change impacts.
Real time monitoring:
The Hudson River Environmental Conditions Observing System (HRECOS)
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) Hudson River Environmental Conditions Observing System (HRECOS) is managed and operated through a growing collaboration of governmental, academic, and private institutions with a shared interest in the health of the Hudson River watershed including:
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) (lead agency)
- United States Geological Survey
- Hudson River Foundation
- Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve
- NY/NJ Harbor and Estuary Program
- NEIWPCC
- Cary Institute
- Hudson River Park River Project
- Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River
- Marist College
- Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
- Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission
- Hudson River Pilots Association
Environment layers:
Landcover and landcover change layers
Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium
The Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) consortium is a group of federal agencies who coordinate and generate consistent and relevant land cover information at the national scale for a wide variety of land resource monitoring and modeling applications. The creation of this consortium has resulted in the mapping of the lower 48 United States, Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico into a comprehensive land cover product termed, the National Land Cover Database (NLCD), from decadal Landsat satellite imagery and other supplementary datasets.
Wetlands, waterbodies, critical environmental areas, and environmental justice and disadvantaged community areas layers
DECinfo Locator
DECinfo Locator is an interactive map that lets you access New York State Department of Environmental Conservation documents and public data about the environmental quality of specific sites in New York, as well as outdoor recreation information. This tool and available information are maintained by the DEC.
Landcover and landcover change layers
Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium
The Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) consortium is a group of federal agencies who coordinate and generate consistent and relevant land cover information at the national scale for a wide variety of land resource monitoring and modeling applications. The creation of this consortium has resulted in the mapping of the lower 48 United States, Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico into a comprehensive land cover product termed, the National Land Cover Database (NLCD), from decadal Landsat satellite imagery and other supplementary datasets.
Wetlands, waterbodies, critical environmental areas, and environmental justice and disadvantaged community areas layers
DECinfo Locator
DECinfo Locator is an interactive map that lets you access New York State Department of Environmental Conservation documents and public data about the environmental quality of specific sites in New York, as well as outdoor recreation information. This tool and available information are maintained by the DEC.
Riverkeeper Water Quality Portal
Use this interactive map to explore water quality throughout the Hudson River watershed with data that Riverkeeper and our partners collect. Dive into when and where it is safe to swim and boat, how clean your drinking water is, the health of the region's fish, and the impacts of climate change.