Pam Knox
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The Climate.gov web site has a good introductory section on climate data. You can find the primer at https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/primer/climate-data-primer. It includes information on how climate is measured, how the data are processed and quality controlled, how past climates are interpreted and how future climate is predicted, and where to get climate data. I also have a…
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The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory released a short article this week describing research to be published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. In the article it discusses the variability in temperature distributions in different El Nino episodes. Some episodes feature strong temperature anomalies, while others are weaker. Some favor the strongest warming near…
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At CPASW today we learned that the Climate Prediction Center is in the process of updating their website to a new, cleaner and more interactive model. You can view the new beta version of the website at https://www.cpcpara.ncep.noaa.gov/. This site will combine much of the functionality of the old web site, including climate and drought outlooks,…
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If you have a home garden or plant according to the USDA plant hardiness zones, you might be interested in this recent article from NOAA’s Climate.gov (link). In the story, the impacts of changing normals every ten years on planting zones is explained and maps show the differences between the old planting dates and the…
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Dr. George Vellidis of the University of Georgia and cooperating scientists at several other Southeastern universities have developed several irrigation applications for smartphones as part of their work on the USDA NIFA program. Currently apps are available for cotton, citrus, strawberries and urban lawns. You can learn about these apps and download them at https://smartirrigationapps.org.…
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I am attending the Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop this week in Las Cruces NM. The theme of this year’s meeting is agriculture. After one day, my mind is already full of new web sites to visit and tools that might be useful to those of us who use climate information to make production decisions.…
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Each year on March 23, the World Meteorological Organization, along with its 191 members — including the National Weather Service — and the worldwide meteorological community, celebrates World Meteorological Day. This day commemorates the formation of the WMO. This year’s theme is “Climate knowledge for climate action,” highlighting both recent advances in climate science and…