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If you are interested in reading about agriculture and climate in the Pacific Northwest, you might like to visit the website for that region. You can find it at https://agclimate.net/. Lots of interesting stories on the impact of climate on agriculture in that productive part of the country!
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If you’ve been paying attention to the current tropical season, you know that the west coast has been plagued by heavy rains from the remnants of tropical storms. First Hurricane Norbert, and now Hurricane Odile have sent plumes of moisture into the desert Southwest, leading to unprecedented flooding and the possibility of many additional rainfall…
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The Climate News Network produced an article this week describing how the recent unprecedented drought in Brazil has highlighted the importance of the Amazon rainforest in the regional water budget. The rainforest is being chopped down in many areas, in many cases to grow soybeans and other agricultural crops as well as for lumber. Ironically,…
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David Schmidt from the Animal Agriculture and Climate Change working group posted this column today about the SRECA meeting we had early in September in Athens and what it taught him about peer-to-peer learning. When I am not thinking about animals and climate, I think about my online undergraduate course that I teach…
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In the monthly webinar for the Appalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basin today, we heard from El Nino expert Klaus Wolter on his prediction for the coming winter. Based on his study of analog years similar to this one and other indicators, Dr. Wolter believes that an El Nino may already be underway based on conditions in India,…
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Climate.gov has a blog discussing topics related to El Nino, an oscillation which affects temperature and precipitation in parts of the Southeast, particularly in winter months when El Nino is usually strongest. One of the research questions that comes up in studies of changing climate is whether El Nino will occur more frequently in the…
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I am giving an online class on sources of weather and climate data for extension training this week. In preparation for this class, I have collected a list of sources of data that might be useful to all of you. I am providing it here for those of you who are not attending the webinar.…