Abstract
Teleconnections are a mechanism of natural climate variability. They are associated with local factors that cause climate anomalies in remote sectors of the globe. As the seasonal climate forecast depends on the knowledge of the teleconnection patterns, the objective of this study is to present the development of an online tool that gathers a huge amount of information for easy access by users who are interested in monitoring the different patterns of teleconnection. For this reason, climate indices made available by different meteorological centers are used. Moreover, here two new indices are implemented. The methodology relies on the use of web development tools for its implementation and to promote the visualization of climate indices, maps of atmospheric variables, animations, statistical, as well as other products. This tool is available at: https://meteorologia.unifei.edu.br/teleconexoes/. Finally, it should be noted that the tool was designed to be updated automatically each month.
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