Tools for climate and agriculture
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If you are a fruit farmer or someone else who needs to access chill (or chilling) hours for your crops, here is a new resource that may be of use to you. The Midwestern Regional Climate Center has produced some national maps that allow you to get calculated chilling hours for airport stations across the…
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The Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas, launched by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S*) on 20 February, is set to be an important new resource for policymakers looking to formulate effective climate policy and for other users needing to visualise and analyse climate change information. This new tool from C3S, which builds on the Interactive Atlas of the…
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The USDA issued a press release today celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the founding of the USDA Climate Hubs. I have worked with our Southeast Regional Climate Hub in Raleigh for most of that time, and they are a great resource for us in the Southeast. You can read some of my previous blog posts…
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Last week, I gave a talk at the Southeast Fruit & Vegetable Growers conference in Savannah to peach growers. One of the things we discussed was the change in chill hours over time due to the warming climate. I provided some graphs showing the decrease in chill hours that I created using hourly data from…
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Here is a new app that is available to growers across the United States to help manage insect pests and diseases in a variety of crops. According to their website, “MyIPM has you covered to control and manage diseases and pests in your crops.” Many of the contributors to the development of the app are…
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If you like to play with maps and climate outlooks, you might be interested in this NOAA site from their Physical Sciences lab. It allows you to look at the individual climate anomalies for each EL Nino or La Nina in the period 1991-2020 to see how they varied. It shows both global patterns and…
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The fine folks at CoCoRaHS posted this map showing counties across the country that had only one or no precipitation observers. I am sad to see so many counties in Georgia that don’t have any observers, not even at extension offices. South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida are doing a much better job of getting…