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Suite of Tools to Disseminate Information Derived from Multiple Domains Science Results
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  • Drew Resnick,
  • Xandre Chourio,
  • Rémi Cousin,
  • Kevin Graaf,
  • Kyle Hall,
  • Aaron Kaplan,
  • Igor Khomyakov,
  • Audrey Vadillo
Drew Resnick
Columbia University International Research Institute for Climate and Society

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Xandre Chourio
International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
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Rémi Cousin
International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Columbia University
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Kevin Graaf
International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
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Kyle Hall
International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
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Aaron Kaplan
International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
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Igor Khomyakov
Columbia University
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Audrey Vadillo
International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
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Abstract

We present here a set of tools to curate, analyze, visualize and disseminate datasets, as well as communicate scientific findings, through easy-to-use web interfaces. PRISM uses the IRI Data Library (DL) to aggregate data from climate, agriculture, hydrology, ecology, finance, power outage and space weather domains of science, as well as the datasets resulting from their interdisciplinary research. These datasets vary in their spatial and temporal (and other) representations that the DL allows however to consistently represent in a multi-dimensional data framework. Proper curation facilitates interoperability and dissemination via other tools. We thus use popular python libraries (e.g. xarray, numpy, pandas) to query, manipulate and visualize the data and then build web applications to facilitate their exploration. The content and the interface of those applications, which we call Maprooms, are co-developed with the PRISM scientists in order to design the most relevant way to communicate their results.