Specialist climate and hazard expertise for engineering and consulting teams
Degree Day provides senior climate-science support when projects require analysis beyond standard datasets and off-the-shelf tools.
Turning Climate Information into Infrastructure Decisions
Climate information is only useful when it helps answer a real question. Degree Day provides the expertise, datasets, and decision-support tools needed to apply climate information appropriately.
Flood & Hazard Modeling
Custom riverine, coastal, and pluvial flood modeling for sites, corridors, watersheds, and coastlines. Defensible results without a months-long engineering study.
What you get
- Riverine, coastal, and pluvial flood hazard
- Present-day and future climate scenarios
- Flood depth maps, extent, and asset-level exposure
- Comparisons against public or commercial flood maps
Specialist Climate Support for Project Teams
Embedded climate expertise for engineering firms and consultancies that need senior technical support without adding full‑time headcount.
What you get
- White-label or named climate subconsulting
- Proposal and RFP methodology support
- Technical review of climate assumptions and vendor outputs
- Custom climate analysis for client deliverables
- Expert support for reports, presentations, and client questions
Climate Design Criteria for Infrastructure
Site-specific rainfall, heat, and wind values for infrastructure that must perform under future climate conditions.
What you get
- Future-facing climate projections tailored to your project
- Design‑ready rainfall, heat, and wind values
- Clear documentation of data sources, assumptions, methods, and uncertainty
Design for the Climate Ahead
Prioritize Climate Risk Across Sites and Portfolios
Transparent climate and natural-hazard screening to identify exposed assets, compare hazard drivers, and decide where deeper review is needed.
What you get
- Asset-level exposure screening across major hazards
- Transparent data sources, assumptions, and limitations
- Prioritization for due diligence, disclosure, resilience planning, or site-specific analysis
Where River and Coastal Flood Exposure Is Concentrated
Need independent expert review, custom research, or help interpreting conflicting climate data?
Explore Independent Review & AdvisoryHazard Explorer
See what climate hazards your assets are exposed to.
21 climate and natural-hazard layers, mapped worldwide — from wildfire and extreme heat to coastal flooding.
Built for Decisions that Matter
Independent and Objective
Engineering-Grade Climate Data Designed for Infrastructure
You Talk to the Experts, Not a Sales Rep
Cutting-Edge Science, Delivered Today
Who We Work With
Climate intelligence for organizations designing, operating, and investing in long-lived infrastructure
Engineering Firms
Climate data and technical expertise for infrastructure design, resilience planning, and technical deliverables that require defensible methodologies
Utilities
Independent advisory for grid resilience, water system adaptation, and capital investment decisions for critical infrastructure operations.
Municipalities
Technical support for adaptation planning, resilience bond justification, and climate risk assessment for public infrastructure systems. Decision-making, not academic completeness
Real Estate Development
Expert climate analysis for site selection, design criteria development, and long-term risk assessment in due diligence and development planning.
Infrastructure Investors
Decision-grade climate intelligence for asset assessment, portfolio risk screening, and capital allocation decisions with multi-decade horizons.
Consultancies
Climate science capacity for client projects. White-label technical support, sub-consulting, and embedded expertise for your team.
Engineering-Grade Climate Data
Resolution you can see
Coarse global models blur extremes that drive local risk.
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Validated Against Observations
Accuracy you can trust
Benchmarked against a global network of in-situ weather stations — not just other models.
96%
Wind speed
89%
Diurnal temperature range
82%
Relative humidity
77%
Surface pressure
Share of weather stations with lower RMSE than raw ERA5.
Source: Rasmussen (2026), “Multivariate bias correction of ERA5 using in-situ observations for planning and engineering,” Environmental Research: Climate.
Blog Posts
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Did Our Wildfire Model See It Coming?
A model scored on the data it learned from will always look good. The real question is how it performs where it has never looked. This is how we tested our wildfire layer.
08.14.2026
What to Do When Climate Risk Models Disagree
One coastal property. Thirteen vendors. One of them found no flood risk at all. If the models cannot agree, what should an organization actually do?
07.29.2026
SCOPE-ERA5: Weather-station calibrated ERA5 data for planning and engineering applications
A bias-corrected, multivariate, station-calibrated reanalysis dataset built for engineering and planning workflows that demand reliable local weather data.
06.05.2026
Research That Informs Practice
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Multivariate Bias Correction of ERA5 Using in-situ Observations for Planning and Engineering
Environmental Research: Climate (2026)
Observations reveal changing coastal storm extremes around the United States
Nature Climate Change (2025)
Coastal Flood Protection Megaprojects in an Era of Sea-Level Rise: Politically Feasible Strategies or Army Corps Fantasies?
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (2023)
Popular Extreme Sea Level Metrics Can Better Communicate Impacts
Climatic Change (2022)
