Tools for climate and agriculture
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The US Climate Resilience Toolkit has a website that allows you to look at past and projected future climate trends for different climate scenarios. They introduced it at a media event this week. You can visit it at https://toolkit.climate.gov/climate-explorer2/. I am still learning how it works, but there seems to be a lot of useful information…
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Today is a transition day for Dr. Ryan Boyles, the North Carolina State Climatologist who has been one of the most active state climatologists in the country and who was featured on this blog in July 2015. Ryan is moving to the Department of the Interior’s Southeast Climate Science Center and will serve there as…
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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Great Flood that occurred in Asheville, NC, washing away hundreds of homes and businesses along the French Broad River. It was a major catastrophe for the city, which did not feel the heaviest rainfall but felt the biggest impacts from the rainfall upstream. You can read more about…
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I’m taking a break from the blog for ten days while I attend a conference on high impact weather and climate and celebrate my my 25th wedding anniversary with my husband John Knox and friends. While I’m gone, you can find a list of web sites that you can use to find your own weather and…
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The US Climate Resilience Toolkit has a useful tool looking at vegetation health. It is called VegScape and it looks at the condition of vegetation across the US on a zoomable map derived from satellite data. You can read about it and find a link to the tool at https://toolkit.climate.gov/tool/vegscape%E2%80%94vegetation-condition-explorer. It is a little hard…
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Crystal Powers of the University of Nebraska, and one of my teammates on the Animal Ag and Climate Change project, pointed out a neat web site which allows you to look at projected changes in a variety of climate and agricultural values. Even though they list it as for the Pacific Northwest, it actually allows…
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A new website which collects information on wildfire in the Southeast is now available at https://southernwildfire.net/. This website collects information on wildfire research geared towards Southeastern wildfires as well as shares success stories on dealing with forest fires. It includes information on SouthWRAP, the Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment online mapping tool, an evaluation tool for assessing your…