OWGIS is being developed at the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS), Florida State University (FSU), in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). OWGIS is currently used as the interactive visualization map of the Digital Climatic Atlas of Mexico (Zavala-Hidalgo et al.,2010), which has been available since 2009 and provides access to more than 2000 layers of oceanic climate, climate change scenarios, bioclimatic parameters, and socioeconomic indicators, among other variables. OWGIS is also used by the Deep-C Consortium (http://deep-c.org/) to display oceanographic data from the Gulf of Mexico.