Harnessing Online Climate Data for Agricultural Resilience and Disaster Mitigation Efforts

Authors

  • T Sammis Dept of Agronomy & Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. email: tsammis@nmsu.edu
  • D Sitze Deptof Agronomy & Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Ouces, New Mexico
  • D Fitzpahick Department of Agronomy & Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Ovices, NM
  • P Mott Dept of Agronomy & Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM email: pwmobjetlogic.com"

Keywords:

Climate, Weather, Communication, Internet, WWW, Irrigation, agriculture, Disaster Management

Abstract

Americans rely on climate data for decision making on their personal projects as well as on their country’s agricultural development. Information on climate is collected by private citizens and various government agencies at local, state, and federal levels. The state climatologist oversees the coordination of this data at the state level. In New Mexico, the state climatologist runds a website to facilitate the distribution of climate information. This evolved from a Wildcat bulletin board that was originally used for sharing climate data. It includes data gathered through the National Weather Service’s cooperative observer program and an online weather information system managed by the state. Users can access climate data for specific regions and time periods in both text and graphic formats. The website offers a search engine and provides information on climate, crop water usage, and insect development based on growing degree-days. The study opines that online climate data harnessed and analysed for for agricultural resilience can also be used for disaster mitigation efforts. Wide-reaching capabilities of tools provided by Informatics enable the sharing of valuable climate data for effective use in different spheres

Author Biographies

  • T Sammis, Dept of Agronomy & Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. email: tsammis@nmsu.edu

    Theodore Sammis was with Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Has PhD in Hydrology from University of Arizona. His research interests include crop modelling, water requirements of crops, modelling, water requirements of crops, evapotranspiration, climate data collection and processing, pesticide movement, expert system development, irrigation design and management, drainage design and management, and salinity management. He taught on Irrigation and Drainage, Instruments in Agronomy, Horticulture, Soils, and Land Use. His area of Interest is agricultural Informatics and has developed many expert systems.

  • D Sitze, Deptof Agronomy & Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Ouces, New Mexico

    Sitze D was with Department of Agronomy & Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Ouces, New Mexico. His area of interest was ICT application in agriculture and has a few published papers and conference presentations on the subject.

  • D Fitzpahick, Department of Agronomy & Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Ovices, NM

    Fitzpahick D was faculty at the Department of Agronomy & Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Ovices, New Mexico. Has a few publications on computer applications in farming practises.

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Published

2024-10-24

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 4 (2024): Environmental Informatics

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