Project Overview
This website describes the project Web-based Educational Tools for Understanding Climate Variability, which is funded by a 2008 NWACC Proof of Concept Grant award.
The objective of this project is to create web-based tools that facilitate exploration and analysis of long-term climate data over a range of spatial and temporal scales, with the ultimate goal of using the tools for education and research. Although some web-based tools exist that enable the viewing and querying of climate data (e.g., the PRISM Data Explorer), there is a need for web-based tools that can perform more advanced queries and analyses among multiple spatial and temporal scales. In particular, tools are needed that can help identify patterns and extremes that are not otherwise apparent.
Building upon previous work, we will use a number of open source software tools to develop an interface that permits the interactive query and visualization of change over time. The interface will go beyond basic mapping tools and provide the ability to view animated displays of time-series data, including the ability to stop the animation to query the underlying data at that point in time.
