Tools for climate and agriculture
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You probably read my weekly drought updates for the United States. But here is a drought tool that goes beyond the US to cover the whole globe. It is called Copernicus and provides a zoomable global map which highlights areas where drought is affecting agriculture. In this map the months are divided into ten-day periods…
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The North Carolina Climate Office posted an article today which describes a new tool that is coming out of their office. It allows viewers to find the frequency of climate events above a set threshold. For example, it can find the number of days per year that are above 90 F at a given location.…
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Do you know what Wet Bulb Globe Temperature is? The Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) is a measure of the heat stress in direct sunlight, which takes into account: temperature, humidity, wind speed, sun angle and cloud cover (solar radiation). This differs from the heat index, which takes into consideration temperature and humidity and is…
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A new set of maps produced by the research and technology nonprofit First Street Foundation shows that FEMA estimates of areas prone to flooding may be underestimating the number of properties that are at risk by as much as 6 million, which would bring the total number to 14.6 million, according to a Bloomberg article…
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Hot off the presses is a new set of guides for hurricane preparation and recovery from the USDA Southeast Regional Climate Hub. If you are a commercial producer in the Southeast, you are going to want to take a look at these guides to see how you can plan ahead for hurricanes and tropical storms…
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I ran across a couple of interesting climate web sites this week that you might find useful. The first is a web site which shows diurnal climatologies of a variety of weather factors for each month of the year for a selection of cities across the US. “Diurnal” means it shows how these variables change…
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In court cases I have worked on in the past, I needed to find the angle of the sun at a certain time of day to see if it was shining in a driver’s eyes or melting ice on an outdoor staircase. Here is a simple web site which will do the work for you.…
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