Nineteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

The ongoing criticality of climate change has prompted extensive research in the field of environmental modelling and climate informatics. To combat the impending impacts of climate change, various mitigation and adaptation responses are being investigated and employed, largely based on the results of climate models. It is imperative to enhance the education around the outputs of climate models due to their widespread application. This study aims to increase the knowledge and understanding of these results through a framework that performs direct comparison between daily climate model simulations and the observed climate data. The comparison method in the framework presents a novel analysis process for climate data. The framework is also a roadmap for climate data curation and serves as a method for overlapping systems design, sustainability, and software development. Additionally, a visualization tool called Weather Analysis Regional Model (WARM) is developed to present the application of the climatic data analysis framework. WARM allows users to perform their own comparison analyses for any region in North America through various graphical visualizations and summaries. In the presentation, we demonstrate WARM capabilities on the real climate datasets collected in Toronto, Canada from 1986 – 2005. The development of such tools will aid in improving the usage and interpretation of climate models on a regional scale. Moreover, the tool can be further developed to interpret the impact of climate variability, as predicted by climate models, on other industries including food safety and security, land use, agriculture, and more.