There is a new one-stop website for information on Hawaiʻi’s climate.
After 10 years of discussing the possibilities of a comprehensive climate website, the University of Hawaiʻi's Hawaiʻi Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (Hawaiʻi ESPCoR) ʻIke Wai project, Hawaiʻi Data Science Institute, UH Water Resources Center, and the East-West Center finally present: the Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal.
The Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal has a wide range of information ranging from the Hawaiian moon calendar to rainfall data.
Website users can navigate a map of Hawaiʻi and see the temperature and rainfall of any location within the state from 1990 to last month. The information is pulled from various state, federal, and local electronic depositories.
"So the portal has several features. There's the data feature that allows you to actually get maps and data. And you can use those products for writing proposals or presentations or just, you know, educational purposes," said Ryan Longman, one of the climate science researchers for the portal.
"And then there's a lot of qualitative information on the portal as well. So, you know, we have all the Hawaiʻi-based climate and ecology-based papers that are available in the electronic library. We have quick access to other tools that are available," Longman told HPR.
Longman explains his 8-year-old child was able to create and download a rainfall map. It's easy for users to navigate information on the portal.
The newly launched portal will continue to add more features such as information on fire warnings and coastal erosion.
