Know your Ocean
The Pacific Ocean Portal is an interactive website for visualizing and accessing historical, real-time and predictive ocean data categorized by marine applications on an integrated and user-friendly platform. The intended primary users of the portal are scientists within Pacific Island Met Services and other government agencies, marine industry and conservation stakeholders, and the general public. It is a tool that aims to both obtain and communicate ocean information. A range of visual formats are employed to support different downstream applications (i.e., maps, time-series, statistical charts, profiles). Data sources include satellite observations, in situ observations, and numerical models (reanalysis and forecast).
The Pacific Ocean Portal was developed over a period of 3 years by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology under the Climate and Oceans Support Program in the Pacific (COSPPac) in close consultation with Pacific Island Met Services and other key ocean stakeholders. SPC has taken on the hosting, maintenance, and further development of the Portal, and has been delivering trainings on possible applications of the portal to in-country stakeholders throughout the region.
From the outset, the portal aimed to provide regional-to-country level information. The intention was to make the portal as intuitive as possible through use of a point-and-click interface to access data, graphs, and tables.
