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In order to improve community preparedness for tsunami and guiding emergency management agencies and communities on proper response, information on evacuation procedures and shelters are essential.  The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami highlighted the need to raise awareness about the hazard and its risks to lives and livelihoods, as well as the need for preparedness for…

Localized and user-tailored ocean information is critical for effective management of maritime activities, such as shipping, maritime recreations, fisheries, and disaster preparedness in islands and coastal regions. Most RIMES Member States in the Indian Ocean have access only to forecasts at coarse resolutions (global and regional scales), which are hardly interpreted by the user agencies…

RIMES in cooperation with ECMWF and working closely with the NMHSs of the member states has developed a dynamic data exchange platform, DataEx. DataEX enables secure exchange of country specific meteorological data, both archived station dataset with metadata and real-time data, otherwise not available in the WMO network (GTS). The data sharing mechanism helps ECMWF…

The Climate Data Access and Analysis System (CDAAS) is a user-friendly web-based portal to access and analyze different global climate models, gridded observation datasets, and downscaled regional climate model products. CDAAS is designed to serve both the lay end-user to easily generate powerful visualizations as well as experts for detailed analysis. Users with access to…