NCEP Global Forecast System

Just about everyone is familiar with weather maps. There are many situations where it is useful to combine the underlying numerical weather data with other types of information. Accessing  the weather data is a necessary first step.
The output from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Global  Forecast System (GFS) is freely available. The [...]

December 16, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Climate, Uncategorized  4 Comments

Mapping Biomes

Recently (2008) the European Space Agency produced GlobCover (ESA GlobCover Project, led by MEDIAS-France), the highest resolution (300m) global land cover map to date. GlobCover uses 21 primary land cover classes and many more sub-classes. Land cover classification (LCC) schemes divide the earth into biomes. Biomes are the simplest way to classify vegetation which can [...]

November 20, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Agriculture, Land Cover Maps, ecosystem model  No Comments