Tools for climate and agriculture
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The climate of the future is still uncertain, in no small part due to uncertainties in how humans will behave with respect to emissions of carbon dioxide, changes in land use over time, and big questions about how the ocean will respond to changes in atmospheric composition and weather patterns. But if you like to…
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Roger Gates, Extension ANR agent in Whitfield County, wrote me to ask for help in finding soil moisture data because he was struggling to fill out the soil moisture survey for the weekly Crop Progress and Condition Survey. I asked him if it would be OK to share his question and my answer because a…
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The US Climate Resiliency Toolkit provides information and links to a variety of tools and data sources for a number of different climate-related events. Here are two that I’ve read about recently that you might find useful. The Water Resources Dashboard at https://toolkit.climate.gov/topics/water-resources/water-resources-dashboard provides information on rainfall forecasts, drought and other extremes, water quality and historical…
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Have you ever heard the term “degree days?” Heating and cooling degree days are derived from temperature data and used to monitor the amount of energy that is needed for heating and cooling. So if you have a winter like this past one, with a much lower number of heating degree days than average, you…
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The US Climate Resiliency Toolkit online has a good web page describing some of the steps that farmers currently use to assess their weather and climate vulnerability and how they take measures to protect against risks to their operations. It includes a five-step process to become more resilient in the face of unknown changes to…
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The combination of warmer than usual weather, lack of precipitation and the early emergence of plants from winter dormancy has helped lead to near-record low stream flows for this time of year on many rivers in Georgia. Here are a couple of examples. The Chattahoochee near Cornelia is at record low flows for this time…
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Here are some detailed global images of vegetation health, including several drought indices, fire danger and soil saturation maps as derived from the Suomi-NPP satellite. In addition to global maps you can view each variable by country. The detail is amazing! You can find out more about them at Climate.gov at https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/global-vegetation-health-images or go directly to…