Region of interest allows you to select a geographical region to display data for. By default, Climate Wikience visualizes global data. If you select the region, only data for that region will be displayed (markers, surface and isolines).

By selecting a region you can accelerate the visualization performed by Climate Wikience since it requires to visualize much less data for much smaller area in contrast to global pictures.

The acceleration also takes place because ChronosServer needs to deliver much less data over the Internet to your PC running Climate Wikience.

Use “Select region” tool located at the toolbar.

Eastward wind speed (u) at 10 meters above ground from CFSR during Hurricane Katrina(30 August, 2005).