Introduction

Since early 2009 the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, BMKG, has worked together with the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, KNMI, on project DiDaH, short for Digitisasi Data Historis. The cooperation focused on the digitization of historical climate data from the Indonesian region over the period 1840 to 1970. Three years later, millions of handwritten and printed historical weather and climate observations from the period 1850 to 1980 had been digitized and stored in a web oriented regional database and software system, the Southeast Asian Climate Assessment and Dataset, SACA&D.

Seen against the global warming issue, this added information on the Indonesian climate is valuable for climate researchers and others in the region who depend on a better understanding of climate and weather extremes.

The project was then nearing completion. From Monday 2 April 2012 until Thursday 5 April 2012 a stakeholder workshop was held in Citeko, Bogor, to present the results. In the first part of the workshop the SACA&D system was presented and discussed with the aim of improving and extending it. In the second part the possible applications and the science that could be done with these assets were the main topic.

Theme

The theme of the workshop was SACA&D as a tool for database visualization in support of climate analysis, climate research and the development of climate services.