SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: WERA_OLD102 : Climate Data and Analyses for Applications in Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Period Covered: 11/01/2001 to 10/01/2002
- Date of Report: 10/29/2002
- Annual Meeting Dates: 10/17/2002 to 10/18/2002
Participants
[Minutes]
Accomplishments
Strand/California: Through California PestCast, a project of the UC Statewide IPM Program in conjunction with the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, additional, crop-based weather data was collected for validation of disease and insect models. Information, including air temperature, RH, rainfall, and leaf wetness duration, at 15-min or hourly intervals was collected. Collection has continued through 4 to 7 seasons, depending on crop and location.
Pasteris USDA-NRCS National Water and Climate Center Multistate: The following activities were accomplished: Data Analyses & Mapping for the RUSLE2 Project. Wind data analyses for wind erosion, air quality, and weather generation. Mean precipitation mapping of the Pac Basin. SNOTEL temperature data was spatial Q/C using PRISM (initial work). Unified Climate Access Network (UCAN--now called AGCLIMET) was implemented by NRCS.
Palmer/Multistate -AgriMet Bureau of Reclamation: Enhancements continue to be made to Reclamations AgriMet Home Page on the World Wide Web to improve access to weather and crop water use information. Near-real time weather data from AgriMet stations continue to be incorporated into several other networks to improve the delivery of timely weather data to a variety of users including the Mesowest Network (sponsored by the University of Utah), the National Weather Service in Missoula, MT (Current surface observations in the Pacific Northwest), and PAWS -- the Public Agricultural Weather System sponsored by Washington State University. AgriMet weather data is utilized daily by the Oregon State University Integrated Plant Protection Center for degree day and pest management modeling.
Jan Curtis University of Wyoming: A drought decision tree was developed to trigger actions required for declaring drought and taking mitigating actions. The drought decision tree may be adapted for other states.
Francis FujiokaUSDA-Forest Service: A National Fire Plan is being developed by the Regional Modeling Consortium to address fire behavior models, fire danger, and air quality impacts of wildland fire.
George TaylorOregon State University
Organ State University has produced weather maps for the following organizations: 1) US official precipitation maps USDA NRCS; 2) New US Climate Atlas NOAA NCDC; 3) 107-yr US climate time series NOAA, NASA; 4) Storm event modeling US Army Corps; 5) Extreme precipitation mapping NOAA NWS; 6) Daily climate mapping USEPA; 7) Spatial Improvement of Forecasts Weather Channel; 8) Canada, China, European Alps mapping EC, USDA, ETH.
Pao-Shin ChuUniversity of Hawaii-Manoa: Drought and wildland fire continue to be a major problem in Hawaii. Extreme rainfall events frequency statistics for Hawaii are being updated. A GIS evaluation of drought impact areas and drought frequency analysis based on the SPI method is being conducted using GIS. An evaluation the Deetch-Byram Dought Index for it effective use in Hawaii is being conducted.
Don JensenUtah State University: Although there is no funding for the Utah Climate Center, the program has continued to make data available from Utah weather stations and work on point and spatial distribution of weather and climate products
Ted SammisNew Mexico State University: A news letter on fire was published by the New Mexico Climate Center. A new interface for the state climatology site was developed and is at http://weather-mirror.nmsu.edu/. A crop growth and irrigation model was developed for pine trees. Addition climate stations were added to the New Mexico Climate Network.
Nolan Doesken Colorado State University: The Year of Drought was the focus of state business, but there were numerous outreach opportunities for putting out weather and climate messages that resulted from the drought. The CoCoRaHS rain and hail study continued to collect and analysis data and expand in size. This is a program that uses cooperators to collect a high special density of rain and hail data.
Pasteris USDA-NRCS National Water and Climate Center Multistate: The following activities were accomplished: Data Analyses & Mapping for the RUSLE2 Project. Wind data analyses for wind erosion, air quality, and weather generation. Mean precipitation mapping of the Pac Basin. SNOTEL temperature data was spatial Q/C using PRISM (initial work). Unified Climate Access Network (UCAN--now called AGCLIMET) was implemented by NRCS.
Palmer/Multistate -AgriMet Bureau of Reclamation: Enhancements continue to be made to Reclamations AgriMet Home Page on the World Wide Web to improve access to weather and crop water use information. Near-real time weather data from AgriMet stations continue to be incorporated into several other networks to improve the delivery of timely weather data to a variety of users including the Mesowest Network (sponsored by the University of Utah), the National Weather Service in Missoula, MT (Current surface observations in the Pacific Northwest), and PAWS -- the Public Agricultural Weather System sponsored by Washington State University. AgriMet weather data is utilized daily by the Oregon State University Integrated Plant Protection Center for degree day and pest management modeling.
Jan Curtis University of Wyoming: A drought decision tree was developed to trigger actions required for declaring drought and taking mitigating actions. The drought decision tree may be adapted for other states.
Francis FujiokaUSDA-Forest Service: A National Fire Plan is being developed by the Regional Modeling Consortium to address fire behavior models, fire danger, and air quality impacts of wildland fire.
George TaylorOregon State University
Organ State University has produced weather maps for the following organizations: 1) US official precipitation maps USDA NRCS; 2) New US Climate Atlas NOAA NCDC; 3) 107-yr US climate time series NOAA, NASA; 4) Storm event modeling US Army Corps; 5) Extreme precipitation mapping NOAA NWS; 6) Daily climate mapping USEPA; 7) Spatial Improvement of Forecasts Weather Channel; 8) Canada, China, European Alps mapping EC, USDA, ETH.
Pao-Shin ChuUniversity of Hawaii-Manoa: Drought and wildland fire continue to be a major problem in Hawaii. Extreme rainfall events frequency statistics for Hawaii are being updated. A GIS evaluation of drought impact areas and drought frequency analysis based on the SPI method is being conducted using GIS. An evaluation the Deetch-Byram Dought Index for it effective use in Hawaii is being conducted.
Don JensenUtah State University: Although there is no funding for the Utah Climate Center, the program has continued to make data available from Utah weather stations and work on point and spatial distribution of weather and climate products
Ted SammisNew Mexico State University: A news letter on fire was published by the New Mexico Climate Center. A new interface for the state climatology site was developed and is at http://weather-mirror.nmsu.edu/. A crop growth and irrigation model was developed for pine trees. Addition climate stations were added to the New Mexico Climate Network.
Nolan Doesken Colorado State University: The Year of Drought was the focus of state business, but there were numerous outreach opportunities for putting out weather and climate messages that resulted from the drought. The CoCoRaHS rain and hail study continued to collect and analysis data and expand in size. This is a program that uses cooperators to collect a high special density of rain and hail data.
Impacts
- New or improved models that were developed this year for more accurate spray timing against insect pests and diseases provide for better control of pests while reducing pesticide use and worker exposure (Strand/California ). Easy accessibility of these tools and the weather data to support them through the Web has increased use if the models. Only through real time modeling and monitoring can pesticide use be decreased.
- With the Weather Data Webpage (http://mac1.pn.usbr.gov/agrimet/wxdata.html) being completely redesigned in April, 2002, users were able to access information easier and use the crop water use information to schedule irrigations in a drought situation. With additional states and stations added to the system more farmers are using climate based irrigation scheduling to conserve water. A survey of the users indicated that they used on a regular bases and like the information available at the site.
- The Extreme precipitation maps being produced for all of the United States will have a large impact on the design of culverts, road and small dams. All of the maps produced by George Taylor at Oregon State University will be used to manage water resources and help planners determine the allocation of water in both drought and flood conditions.