An Online Dashboard Platform for Weather Data of Major Sri Lankan Cities, and Global Climate Trends

Abstract

Having easy access to vital weather information and latest climate trends can be of utmost use for a myriad of stakeholders specially for sectors such as fishing community and the agricultural sector. In this paper we have mainly focused on major Sri Lankan cities and providing a one-stop station for easily accessing useful weather information for all the major Sri Lankan cities scattered over 25 administrative districts via a series of dedicated dashboards for each of the cities. The parameters that are displayed in the dashboards have been decided via surveys covering major stakeholders. Steps have been taken to disseminate not only the weather information but also information about latest climate trends regarding stratospheric ozone concentration and global land and ocean temperature anomalies, and providing all this information in one place with a lot of potential to extend the breadth of information provided in terms of weather and climate changes in the years to come.