| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| CD-rom: LocClim |
| The Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment group announces a new CD-rom entitled "LocClim" , containing a programme that estimates climatic conditions for any location on earth.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN1203_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN1203_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN1203_es.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| El Niño situation and prospects: 29 July 2002 |
| This update reports that the likelihood of an El Niño taking place at the end of this year has risen to about 90%. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0801_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0801_en.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0801_en.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| El Niño situation and prospects: 7 June 2002 |
| 7 June 2002. This El Niño situation and prospects report notes that uncertainty continues to prevail about a full-fledged El Niño, with Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) remaining slightly above average, while the typical response of the atmosphere is still not setting in.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0602_en.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| El Niño situation and prospects: 6 May 2002 |
| The 6 May update of "El Niño situation and prospects" notes that uncertainty continues to prevail about a full-fledged El Niño developing this year: Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) remain above average, but the expected response of the atmosphere fails to develop. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0503_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0503_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0503_es.htm |
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| Environment - Conventions & agreements |
| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Technical Support Services of FAO to the Italian project CLIMAGRI |
| This document details a financial contribution to FAO to provide technical support for the implementation of the national project CLIMAGRI – Climate Change and Agriculture.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0501_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0501_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0501_es.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| CD-Rom "FAOCLIM" |
| SD-Dimensions is pleased to announce "FAOCLIM",
a CD-ROM with world-wide agroclimatic data. The
CD-ROM, now in version 2.0, covers monthly data
for 28100 stations, for up to 14 observed and
computed agroclimatic parameters. It includes both
long-term averages (1961-90) and time series for
rainfall and temperatures. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2001/EN1102_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2001/EN1102_fr.htm |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Agroclimatic concepts |
| This Special describes key basic concepts pertaining to climate in agriculture such as Risk (a basic discussion of climate risk and vulnerability applied to agricultural production as well as risk management) and Impact (a quantification, at the national and global scale, of the losses actually suffered by agriculture due to climate variability). |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/agroclim/concepts.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Rainfall variability and drought in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Agricultural drought occurs when water supply is insufficient to cover crop or livestock water requirements. Low values, however, do not necessarily lead to drought, nor is drought necessarily associated with low rainfall. In order to allow a more synthetic discussion, this article looks at regional patterns, focusing on African droughts, classifying Sub-Saharan countries into eight groups of simi... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/EIan0004.htm |
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