Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
April 9, 2013

Source: University of Nebraska-Lincoln CropWatch

No one knows weather like farmers – and the climatologists at the national and regional NOAA climate offices and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The High Plains Regional Climate Center (hprcc.unl.edu) provides weather information to CropWatch – the daily precipitation, soil temperature, and GDD and Et estimates – so you can better schedule irrigations and estimate crop growth stage. They also provide monitoring and prediction tools to help with short-term and long-term decision-making.

A conference held in Nebraska earlier this winter explored climate change, its potential impact on agriculture globally and in the Midwest, and the climate tools and resources available to help you stay informed and maybe, ahead of the curve. There’s even a session on understanding and analyzing the uncertainties of climate models.

Four of the presentations from this conference are now available on CropWatch. (To view them on a larger screen, access the UNLCropWatch channel on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/UNLCropWatch.)

Did You Know? Globally the combined average temperature over land and sea in February tied for the ninth warmest on record at 1.03 F above the 20th century average temperature. The December-February period was the 12th warmest. (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2013/2).
 

Website: http://cropwatch.unl.edu/

Published: April 9, 2013