Tools for climate and agriculture
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Farm Industry News published a very interesting panel discussion on the future of farming across the world in the face of changing climate, consumer demands, and other challenges. You can find it at https://farmindustrynews.com/precision-farming/future-farming. One of the themes that come up in the discussion over and over again is the important of water availability and…
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A new tool from the University of Arizona Climate Science Applications Program displays standardized precipitation index (SPI)values for a range of time scales over time. SPI is a calculated rainfall amount that takes into account the average rainfall and the standard deviation of rainfall over time and puts it in a standard format which can…
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The National Weather Service has a new experimental product that can show you the weather along your trip route. The NWS Enhanced Data Display provides the ability to look at weather in layers of temperature, precipitation, wind etc in an interactive map-based format. To get the travel weather, go to the main page at https://preview.weather.gov/edd/ and look…
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A new resource guide has recently been made available by the Animal Agriculture Climate Change group that co-sponsors this blog. It is entitled “Adapting to a Changing Climate: A Planning Guide.” It is available online by clicking here. This guide provides several steps that extension agents, farmers and ranchers can use to think about how…
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My meteorologist and climatologist friends have been posting one story after another about the extreme cold weather we have experienced in the past day. Today many areas set records for low maximum temperature, and some record lows were set. Tomorrow morning, many more record lows are expected to be broken. The Southeast Regional Climate Center…
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NOAA has just announced the availability of a new web site which provides a toolkit of information on how to become more resilient to changes in climate over time. It is especially geared to coastal issues, but there is a lot of information for all stakeholders there. For example, there is a carbon calculator for…
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One of the toughest things for climatologists to explain is what a 55 percent chance of El Nino or a 40 percent chance of an above normal winter is. Two examples of probabilistic forecasts are shown below. The pie chart is from AgroClimate.org and the bar graph is from IRI at Columbia University. Most people think…