| 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 - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| An El Niņo Primer |
| El Niņo triggers so much interest for three reasons: it can be modelled, thus forecast; its influence on climate is global; and there is a time lag between the phenomenon itself and many of its most important climatic consequences, therefore it can be used for forecasting climate. FAO interest in the phenomenon regards the impacts on agriculture - and consequently food security - of the extreme n... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/EIan0008.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Climate and crisis in Rwanda |
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| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/frdirect/EIan0006.htm |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Report of the Meeting of Experts on Ecological Networks |
| This article reports on the Meeting of Experts on Ecological Networks held in Guernica, Spain, 17-20 June 1997. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together representatives from selected networks to provide the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) steering committees with advice on the best way to proceed in developing a network of ecologica... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/EIre0038.htm |
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