Climate Information Tool

Use this view to switch from the standard post listing to a searchable table, helping you quickly find and compare climate tools and atlases with essential information at a glance.

BGIS is a central hub for biodiversity planning and related information, managing spatial data like the National Biodiversity Assessment (NBA) terrestrial threatened ecosystem data. The user-friendly mapping platform enables visualization of key biodiversity features, allowing users to add, toggle layers, annotate, and print maps.

The National Terrestrial Carbon Sinks Assessment (NTCSA) aims to understand carbon distribution, identify mitigation opportunities, and review policies for sustainable land management in response to climate change.

Near real-time surveillance of climate-related hazards and climate-sensitive health outcomes, providing accessible data and visualisations to support early warning, risk communication and evidence-based public health decision-making across South Africa.

The Climate Information Portal (CIP) merges a climate database with guidance documentation in a user-friendly interface. It combines observational climate data, future climate projections, and extensive guidance to facilitate effective use, interpretation, and informed actions.

Climate TRACE, a non-profit coalition, utilizes AI and ML to create an accessible inventory of global greenhouse gas emissions. The tool analyses vast data, including 90 trillion bytes from 300+ satellites, 11,000+ sensors, and various other sources worldwide.

ClimateSERV enables users to easily visualize and download 180-day rainfall and temperature forecasts, as well as historic rainfall and vegetation conditions.

Spatially represents daily Fire Danger Index values as and when issued by SAWS.

The Coastal Viewer provides public access to spatial data on the Coastal Zone, sourced from custodians. It supports informed decision-making for sustainable use of coastal resources, aligning with South Africa's National Coastal Management Programme.

The Essential Life Support Areas (ELSA) tool on UN Biodiversity Lab (UNBL) enables any UNBL workspace user to rapidly identify essential life support areas for their country based on global priorities and data. It is currently available as a proof of concept for Colombia, Costa Rica, and South Africa.

The Olifants River Flow Tracker allows near real-time monitoring of flow and dams, with a weather forecast feature.

FBIS is an open-access, online platform for serving, hosting, analyzing, visualising and sharing freshwater biodiversity data in South Africa. The overall purpose of the platform is to support data-driven freshwater decision-making and management in South Africa.

The Global Drought Monitor assesses worldwide drought conditions using continent-specific inputs, providing a comprehensive view. Global drought indices and indicators supplement the assessment.

Global Forest Watch is an open-source web application to monitor global forests in near real-time.

PREVIEW shares global risk data on natural hazards, allowing users to access information on past events, human and economic exposure, and risks associated with various phenomena.

The Green Book is an online tool offering scientific evidence on climate change and urbanization impacts on South Africa's urban areas. It suggests adaptation actions for local governments to foster climate-resilient development.

The Health Systems Trust Indicator Tool presents the best available data on a wide range of health and related indicators from multiple years.

Web Service displays near real-time warnings across South Africa from SAWS spatially. Data Source: FTP from SAWS near real-time

Participatory tool empowering individuals with control over their weather data. For five years, the Suid Bokkeveld community has utilized climate diaries to monitor farm micro-climates, recording weekly maximum and minimum temperatures, daily rainfall, and additional weather observations.

The Lets Respond Toolkit provides stakeholders with an introduction and overview on how to integrate climate change into municipal planning processes.

The South African Mine Water Atlas is a comprehensive reference on the vulnerability of water resources to mining activity in South Africa. It shows the critical interplay between mining and water resources and is the most extensive set of documents of its kind.

Explore and view data from the CSIR Green Book's Risk Tool including projections for temperature, rainfall, fire danger, heat stress, groundwater depletion, and coastal flooding. Compare these with average climate metrics including minimum and maximum temperature extremes (1950-2000) derived from the South African Atlas of Agrohydrology and Climatology.

The National Climate Change Response Database (NCCRD) is intended as a resource to collect and track interventions on climate change (adaptation and mitigation) on past, current and future climate change response efforts (policies, plans, strategies, projects and research) across South Africa.

The framework is intended to provide guidance on what to consider when undertaking climate rrisk and vulernability assessments within diverse South African contexts in order to enable alignment, comparison, and aggregation between them and work towards an effective climate adaptation response across scales.

The Environmental Screening Tool is a web-based application enabling proponents seeking environmental authorization to pre-screen their proposed sites for environmental sensitivity under the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations (2014).

The National Integrated Water Information System (NIWIS) was developed by the Department of Water and Sanitation with the purpose of providing information products, in the form of dashboards, to facilitate efficient analysis and reporting across the water value chain in South Africa.

The purpose of the Disaster Atlas Application is to be able to view historic records of declared or gazetted disasters (2006-2017)

Spatially represents monthly drought observations as depicted by Standard Precipitation Index (SPI). Data is sourced from the Agricultural Research Council (ARC).

The Participatory Assessment of Climate and Disaster Risks (PACDR) tool consists of seven modules that build upon each other to enable users to systematically integrate the consideration of climate and disaster risks into community planning and development.

This register, developed in 2012 for reporting and mapping purposes, contains a comprehensive list of protected areas, specifying their types and additional information as determined by the Minister.

SAAQIS is a unified platform in South Africa for managing air quality information, ensuring consistency in capturing, storing, validating, analyzing, and reporting data to stakeholders, including the public.

The South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas offers live web mapping, static maps, reports, and analysis tools to enhance understanding of global change impacts. It provides easy access to data from different research institutes for local-level planning.

This tool was designed as process to assist farmers to decide which climate resilient agriculture practices would be more suitable for them.

SAWS Product Catalogue

PDF reports of recent climate conditions at daily and monthly time-scale

Credible and policy-relevant climate science to inform climate change responses, translating evidence on changing rainfall, temperature and extremes into actionable insights for adaptation planning and decision-making at sub-national level in South Africa.

AFIS is a near real time operational satellite fire monitoring system that provides information regarding the prediction, detection and assessment of fires.

System for early warning of flood and drought conditions across the continent

The South African Atlas of Climatology and Agrohydrology (SAAACA) provides freely available daily weather data at the quaternary catchment scale for the period extending from 1950 up to 1999. The Atlas provides a detailed overview of climate patterns, hydrology, and their impact on agriculture in South Africa.

ThinkHazard! flags hazards in an area, indicating the level of awareness needed for each. It also offers guidance on risk reduction within the project area.