Using a Pangeo platform on Azure to tackle global environmental challenges

The Pangeo project enables interactive, reproducible and scalable environmental research to be carried out using an integrated data-computational platform. Here we demonstrate a few examples that utilise a Pangeo platform on Microsoft Azure supported by the Met Office where global environmental challenges are explored and tackled collaboratively. They include: (1) Analysing and quantifying drivers of low rainfall anomalies during boreal summer in Indonesian Borneo using causal inference and causal network to identify key teleconnections, and their possible changes under a warming climate, which will contribute to seasonal forecasting efforts to strengthen prevention and control of drought and fire multihazards over peatlands in the study region; (2) Quantifying and communicating uncertainty in volcanic ash forecasts; and (3) Exploring the cascading effects that follow the degradation and recovery of Caribbean coral reefs.