Tools for climate and agriculture
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Scientists at the University of Florida have created a new model that may help growers plant at optimal times and avoid drought. The model, called ARID (Agricultural Reference Index for Drought), predicts water loss for crops like cotton, peanuts, soybeans and corn, using weather variables like temperature, humidity, wind and solar energy and translates that…
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A new blog on El Nino-Southern Oscillation (better known as ENSO) is now available from NOAA at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/department/8443/all. This blog will provide background information and current discussion about the status of El Nino and La Nina as well as descriptions of its impact across the United States and the world. ENSO has big impacts on…
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So far May has been feast or famine for rainfall in the Southeast. I saw standing water on the fields in northern Florida into southern Georgia as I drove back from Tallahassee to Athens last week, but dust clouds as I got close to home. This map shows the rankings of the month-to-date…
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The US Geological Survey has a new interactive web site which shows model projections of climate in the US compared to present conditions at https://www.usgs.gov/climate_landuse/clu_rd/apps/nccv_viewer.asp. This site allows you to look at projections of climate in 2050-2074 compared to the present for a variety of models, regions and months across the US. It focuses on…
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A new smartphone app for cotton irrigation is now available at https://smartirrigationapps.org/. This app, which was developed by University of Georgia and University of Florida researchers, will help producers irrigate their crops based on local conditions using information from the Georgia Weather Network (formerly GAEMN) and the Florida Automated Weather Network (FAWN). The app recommends…
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