SEA-COApp: A web app to analyze, download, and visualize Regional Ocean Model (ROM) datasets in Southeast Asia

Abstract

To provide weather and climate-related services for disaster management, public policymaking, and adaptation and mitigation efforts, the information regarding climate change is of high importance. However, obtaining or analyzing climate change datasets has been a challenge for those unfamiliar with coding. Therefore, to make the datasets easier to obtain and work with, we develop a "Southeast Asia - Climate-Ocean web App"(SEA-COApp). The SEA-COApp is a web app to aid people in obtaining, analyze, or visualize ROM datasets in Southeast Asia. It can obtain chunks of data from the InaROMS server and visualize it with an intuitive graphical user interface. Furthermore, it also has functionalities to calculate climatology, area average, anomaly, and trends. The tool can help those who are unfamiliar with climate change datasets to be able to use the datasets for their research. Thus, promoting cross-disciplinary research.