Tools for climate and agriculture
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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…
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There has been a tremendous amount of hype the last few days about the coming cold outbreak that will be affecting most of the eastern 2/3 of the United States. Some bloggers and pundits have talked about “bombogenesis” and the return of the “polar vortex” and unprecedented cold temperatures. Dr. Michio Kaku, the so-called “science…
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Climate.gov published an interview this week with Ron Bartel, a senior hydrologist with the University of Florida. Bartel works with farmers in the Southeast who are interested in switching from conventional crop rotation to sod-based crop rotation. In the interview, Bartel discusses his use of the Water Footprint Calculator, which is available from AgroClimate, one…
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If you are looking for a point-specific hourly weather forecast for applications like spraying, you might be interested in this product from the National Weather Service. It is a graphical hour-by-hour forecast for your location (by lat/long) that is available online. For most of Georgia you can go to https://www.srh.noaa.gov/forecast/gridpoint.php?site=ffc and either enter your lat/long…