Agromet market place

Here 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

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.

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.

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.

Help on RADAR data on band S — Last modified November 10, 2009 14:54

My name is Zohreh Saleh Zadeh, and I am an MSc student of forecasting in Tehran University. My dissertation is about RADAR data on band S. Would you please help me on how with these datasets we can predict precipitation patterns, wind direction and etc.?

[Global-FFS-l] 100 most important questions for Agriculture — Last modified November 05, 2009 13:10

The project partners are interested in querying the extended community of experts in the field of agricultural to ask what, in your opinion, are the most important questions facing humanity in regard to agriculture. The exercise is being conducted world-wide and the "top 100 questions" will be compiled and published next year. This type of exercise has been conducted already for the domains of ecology and biodiversity with some very interesting outcomes (see bibliography below).

Announcement: New Daily Gridded Precipitation Dataset for Asia — Last modified October 21, 2009 08:12

Let us introduce you our new DAILY GRIDDED PRECIPITAION dataset. The daily gridded precipitation dataset for 1961-2004 was created by collecting rain gauge observation data across Asia through the activity of the Asian Precipitation - Highly Resolved Observation Data Integration Towards the Evaluation of Water

Closing the discussion after reply — Last modified October 16, 2009 14:20

I asked Dr. Antoon Meesters (AM), who is a theoretical physicist by education and a theoretical meteorologist by profession, to reply to the reaction of Makarieva and Gorshkov (M&G) to our earlier paper (Stigter and Meesters).

We received the following reaction. The response paper by the writers of this letter can be found where our paper also appeared, under "Needs for agrometeorological solutions to farming problems" — Last modified October 13, 2009 08:30

We received the following reaction. The response paper by the writers of this letter can be found where our paper also appeared, under "Needs for agrometeorological solutions to farming problems"

Invitation for nominations for the Austin Bourke Bronze Medal 2009 (Agricultural Meteorology) — Last modified October 05, 2009 11:46

The Joint Working Group on Applied Agricultural Meteorology (AGMET, Ireland) is pleased to invite nominations for the Austin Bourke Bronze Medal 2009.

Announcement: North America Land Data Assimilation System Phase 2 (NLDAS-2) hourly products released — Last modified October 05, 2009 09:04

The NASA GSFC Hydrological Sciences Branch and Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Service Center (GES DISC) are pleased to announce the release of North America Land Data Assimilation System Phase 2 (NLDAS-2) data products in the Hydrology DISC.