Topics
INSAM Topics (and recent updates in it)
Under "Agromet Market Place", started April 2003, you can bring up issues in agrometeorology for public discussion and scrutinizing. We once started with two short stories on the "Scope of agricultural meteorology" and the "Importance of Agricultural Meteorology", but many issues followed since. Please contribute with comments on these or any other issues you deem important. Have a look at what we put under that heading so far!
Under “Online weather and climate information for agrometeorologists” we very recently started to give you access to NASA material that you might want to study and use.
The “”Hands on” Training for Response Farming” collection speaks for itself. If you have items for inclusion, send them to the president.
Under “Selected Bibliography”, since 2006 the Web Editor is collecting important recent publications in agrometeorology to assist you in staying informed in your fields of work.
Under "Agrometeorological Societies & Committees" we list such organizations, wherever they function, with contact persons and addresses. [Send proposals for entries to the Web Editor.]
Under "Working Groups in operation" we give information on Working Groups in Agrometeorology or related subjects, their actual subjects, their (short) history and their contact person(s) (and contact language), that are functioning anywhere in the world. [Send items for inclusion to the Web Editor.]
Under "Accounts of Operational Agrometeorology" we publish short accounts on successful operational applications and services in agrometeorology (public (e.g. NMHSs) and private), as well as on action support systems (data, research, policies, extension), that are suitable for further dissemination, or on publications that are holding such accounts. [Discuss items for this section with the president.]
Under "Needs for agrometeorological solutions to farming problems" we have discussions on problems for which operational solutions with agrometeorological components are highly required, but not yet or incompletely available, or available but not applied. Here pre-publication information may be exchanged and experiences swapped on possible services, research, training/extension and policies related to food security, on-farm and market related. [Discuss items for this section with the president.]
Under "History of Agrometeorology" we publish short accounts of the history of agrometeorology in countries, organizations (such as NMHSs), institutes (research as well as education), journals etc.. This may also be life and work of important agrometeorologists, history of important inventions/ instruments/equations/courses etc. in agrometeorology. [Discuss items for this section with the president.]
Under "Journals with agrometeorological components" we list scientific journals that publish papers on aspects of agrometeorology. [Send proposals for inclusion, with a description of agrometeorological components of these journals, to the president.]
Assisted by valuable searching of agrometeorologists from the countries concerned we have collected under “National periodicals of interest to agrometeorologists” valuable information on periodicals that will also appear in 2009 in an Appendix of the WMO/CAgM Guide to Agricultural Meteorological Practices (GAMP). [Additions for countries not yet occurring may be sent to the Web Editor.]
“Books in Agrometeorology” wants to signal new book publications, with or without a review or abstract of the contents. [Send items for inclusion to the Web Editor.]
Under “Draft 3rd Ed. GAMP (2007)” you find the double peer reviewed draft version of the WMO/CAgM Guide to Agricultural Meteorological Practices as produced between 2003 and 2007 by a large number (181) of contributors and reviewers under its Editor-in-Chief Kees Stigter.
Under "New information for agrometeorologists" we mention relevant new web sites (before they become only routine links), data bases, software, CDs, trends, issues and other information in agrometeorology [Send items for inclusion to the Web Editor.]
“Environment and Sustainability” is a recently opened topic that widens again our outlook.
“Software Tools useful in Agrometeorology” introduces you to helpful software available to agrometeorologists.
Under “All India crop situation” we supply on a weekly basis the advanced agrometeorological advisories information that is given for the whole of the country by the Indian Meteorological Department in Pune. Other countries may want to follow this example. [Send items for inclusion to the Web Editor.]
The “INSAM homepage texts from 2004 onwards” (also in Spanish and some in Farsi) reproduce the home pages that were written since 2004 by the president.
Under “Suggestions for further subjects in agrometeorology” that should have a section on this Web site, we want to list suggestions from members for discussion on their inclusion. The discussions could include priority setting in the development of agrometeorological services supporting action, agrometeorological action support systems on mitigating impacts of disasters, and their overall support systems (data, research, education/training/extension, policies) [Send proposals to the president.]
Under "Translation" ("Spanish translations") certain topics now also occur in Spanish (click on "Spanish"), largely provided by Dr. Roger E. Rivero Vega (Cuba). Ismabel Dominguez Hurtado (Cuba) also participates with a team. Other people may want to do this for other languages. [Please contact the president.]
All the recent updates
- CROPVGT: new version available — Last modified March 01, 2010 10:12
- The Version 2.1 of CROPVGT, used to crop a Region of Interest from a set of SPOT/VEGETATION satellite images, and do some first pre-processing on NDVI images, is now available.
- The World Bank's Agricultural Risk Management Team (ARMT) — Last modified January 28, 2010 16:45
- The World Bank's Agricultural Risk Management Team (ARMT) carries out research and education on innovative tools for risk management.
- Announcement: ClimateSciNet - climate research network — Last modified January 28, 2010 07:54
- ClimateSciNet is a dedicated professional network which focuses on all aspects of climate research. The climate community is large and interdisciplinary, with interests spanning a multitude of research fields. The network is designed to embrace these fields and bring together students, researchers and industry professionals with a scholarly approach.
- INSAM homepage until December 2009 — Last modified January 12, 2010 09:20
- INSAM homepage until December 2009
- An example of an agrometeorological bulletin from Zambia — Last modified December 23, 2009 08:56
- An example of an agrometeorological bulletin from Zambia
- Other worlds are possible — Last modified December 16, 2009 09:24
- What does human development look like in a world of climate change? That's the question which the _Up in Smoke?_ coalition have been asking since their first report back in 2004. Now, ahead of the UN Climate Change talks in Copenhagen, the coalition has brought together some of the developing world's leading thinkers, including Nobel Peace Prize winners Wangari Maathai (Kenya) and R.K. Pachauri (India), and economists Manfred Max-Neef (Chile) and Jayati Ghosh (India) to describe how they see their countries developing in a carbon-constrained world.
- An EC funded programme on “Linking information and decision making to improve food security” (GCP/GLO/243/EC) — Last modified December 01, 2009 07:22
- Under an EC funded programme on “Linking information and decision making to improve food security” (GCP/GLO/243/EC), we are preparing a set of tools to asses climate change impacts at the national level.
- A Report on the Development of Environmental NGOs in China — Last modified November 30, 2009 15:23
- Since July 2009 JFS has hosted a Chinese intern student for six months. Taking this as an opportunity to learn about the current situation of environmental protection in China, we asked him for a report on Chinese environmental NGOs, their development and challenges. Here is his report.
- Avoiding Catastrophic Costs of Climate Change Requires Fast-Action Strategies — Last modified November 30, 2009 11:26
- Washington D.C., November 23, 2009 – A new report by Dr. Tim Lenton and colleagues published today by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Allianz, a global financial service provider, puts a dollar value on the damages the world faces from passing fast-approaching tipping points for abrupt climate changes.
- A plea for Climate Field Schools in China - Part II: Agrometeorological services in China — Last modified November 30, 2009 11:15
- I have lectured and travelled for advisory purposes in China almost annually since 1996, initially particularly in Nanjing, Beijing and Inner Mongolia. In several missions with Prof. Zheng Dawei to various provinces from 2004, we prepared a preliminary project submission to the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) at the end of 2007. In those visits, in 2008 together with either Prof. Wang Shili or Mr. Ma Yuping, we collected information on agrometeorological services being developed in the Provincial Meteorological Services/Bureaus concerned (Ningxia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, Henan).
