Agricultural Advisors: A Receptive Audience for Weather and Climate Information?

Weather- and Climate-Related Information for Tourism

Weather, climate and tourism are interconnected in many different ways. All of them are of both global and local significance. Weather and/or climate information is of interest for tourists and the tourist industry especially before and during the vacation period. Relevant climate information can be obtained through different media (tourist guide books, Internet, CD, DVD) or through weather ser...

Use of weather and climate information for agricultural planning and decision making

Landholders have long used weather and climate information, based on experience and intuition, for planning and decision making on land or crop management. Over recent times, the availability of data bases of historical climatic information and the development of predictive tools ranging from correlation analysis to computer simulation models have made the climatic information useful to a much ...

Climate and Weather Risk Assessment for Agricultural Planning

Generating downscaled weather data from a suite of climate models for agricultural modelling applications

0308-521X/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2012.08.002 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +254 131 667 1960. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P.G. Jo (P.K. Thornton). 1 Tel.: +44 1341 423561. We describe a generalised downscaling and data generation method that takes the outputs of a General Circulation Model and allows the stochastic generation of daily w...

Weather and Climate Forecasting

The Biblical quotation above is an ancient example of attempting to make meteorological predictions based on empirical observations. The idea it contains tends to work as a forecasting scheme, and it has been expressed in many different ways in the subsequent 2,000 years. it is one of many sayings and rhymes of folklore that provide a qualitative description of the weather. In the 17th century,...