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

[Global-FFS-l] 100 most important questions for Agriculture — Última modificación 05/11/2009 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 — Última modificación 21/10/2009 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 — Última modificación 16/10/2009 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" — Última modificación 13/10/2009 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) — Última modificación 05/10/2009 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 — Última modificación 05/10/2009 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.

Announcement: Great Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data source — Última modificación 28/09/2009 09:32

One of the primary repositories to find reliable historic SST data.

2009/2010 Seasonal rainfall forecast for Zambia — Última modificación 24/09/2009 07:54

We would be very interested to hear about your experience of how forecasts like this are received and actually used in Africa or elsewhere. Let us knowyour experience. Kees Stigter

New Online Climate Forum - "Watching Climate" — Última modificación 28/08/2009 09:06

Watching Climate is a new online forum to discuss and share views about current and ongoing climate events.

IPCC Special Report 'Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters' — Última modificación 27/07/2009 08:32

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has decided to prepare a scientific assessment on managing the risk of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation as proposed by UNISDR and Norway.