NEW: Real time global maps of soil moisture and drought prediction
Tom Goreau
PLEASE CIRCULATE TO ALL CONCERNED ABOUT SOIL WATER:
FARMERS, HYDROLOGISTS, SOIL SCIENTISTS, CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERTS, ETC.
www.windy.com is a real time global weather portal that I use constantly for information on waves, wind, temperature, rain, and many other parameters at sites all over the world. They have just developed, with CzechGlobe, real time global maps and 10 day forecast models for Soil Moisture (%), Moisture Anomaly (mm or in), and Drought Intensity (6 point scale). These maps can be zoomed in on anywhere. They are an incredible tool for everyone concerned with soil, water, and climate. Of course you can’t zoom into your own field, and even great forecast tool predictions have uncertainty, but this information needs to be as widely available as possible! Their announcement is below:
Tom Goreau
Windy joined forces with CzechGlobe to forecast global drought
Millions of people globally are affected by drought every year, it is a natural climate cycle, which is characterized by the lack of precipitation, resulting in a water shortage. Drought is a phenomenon that always occurs on our planet in some form at a given time and can have serious impacts on people’s health, society, economies, agriculture and environment.
We believe that having a tool allowing professionals as well as regular users to analyse current drought situation could greatly improve efforts to cope with drought and making appropriate decisions.
This was the reason why we started to work with CzechGlobe (Global Change Research Institute CAS) on a joint project to monitor and especially forecast drought not only in Czech, but on a global scale.
The challenge was to create a global model that would forecast drought based on available meteorological data several days ahead. This led to a creation of a tool that allows you to monitor the soil moisture supply in real time and forecast its development for the next 10 days.
We are excited to present 3 new layers Soil moisture, Moisture anomaly and Drought intensity.
Soil Moisture
Readily available soil water represents the amount of water available to plants as a proportion of the maximum soil water content that can be permanently held within the given soil column.
Drought anomaly
Available water deficit is the amount of water in mm/inch per the visualized soil column that is missing (or is in surplus) compared to the common levels (average of 1961 to 2010) of available water at the given site and time of the year.
Drought intensity
Drought intensity compares the actual amount of water available to plants with the values recorded for the given area during the same time period of the year between 1961 and 2010. Each drought intensity class represents a particular drought period return probability.
Drought layers will appear in mobile apps in the upcoming weeks.
In case you have further questions regarding the Drought layers, leave us a message in this category.
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD
President, Global Coral Reef Alliance
Chief Scientist, Blue Regeneration SL
President, Biorock Technology Inc.
Technical Advisor, Blue Guardians Programme, SIDS DOCK
37 Pleasant Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
gor...@globalcoral.org
www.globalcoral.org
Skype: tomgoreau
Tel: (1) 617-864-4226 (leave message)
Books:
Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, and Reversing CO2 Increase
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466595392
Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466557734
No one can change the past, everybody can change the future
Those with their heads in the sand will see the light when global warming and sea level rise wash the beach away
Geotherapy: Regenerating ecosystem services to reverse climate change
Bru Pearce
Thanks Tom, Windy is great, I use it all the time and have subscribed to their service its an online facility that deserves support and I commend it to all.
And while I am at it, Happy Holidays to all.
Best wishes,
Bru
Pearce
E-mail b...@envisionation.org
Skype brupearce
Work +44 20 8144 0431 Mobile +44 7740 854713
Salcombe, Devon, UK
Information contained in this email and any files attached to it is confidential to the intended recipient and may be covered by legal professional privilege. If you receive this email in error, please advise by return email before deleting it; you should not retain the email or disclose its contents to anyone. Envisionation Ltd has taken reasonable precautions to minimise the risk of software viruses, but we recommend that any attachments are virus checked before they are opened. Thank you for your cooperation.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Carbon Dioxide Removal" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to
CarbonDioxideRem...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/CarbonDioxideRemoval/52E5CF91-1CAB-4470-AA6B-5C637E388A2E%40globalcoral.org.