Climate change is likely affecting the place where you live, whether that's through hotter temperatures, extreme weather, or droughts. While longer-term solutions are necessary for stopping climate change as a whole, many communities and governments are adjusting their systems to better function under climate change. This may involve building flood defenses, planting crops that need less water, or painting streets with reflective material to avoid heat islands.

Data collected by NASA’s Earth-observing instruments help scientists understand how the changing climate has affected land masses, oceans, and the atmosphere over time. Climate data facilitate predictions about how the climate might evolve in the future, and what steps humans can take to prepare. NASA also curates socioeconomic data to shed light on the human costs of climate change that satellites can't observe.

Our data useful to the study of climate adaptation include measures of the effectiveness of sustainability practices, estimates of how easily different regions could adapt to climate change, surveys of sea level rise impacts, temperature comparisons, and climate risk projections. These resources have facilitated studies into topics such as the spatial distribution of carbon dioxide emissions, flood risks in urban areas, and links between climate and migration.