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Iowa Environmental Mesonet

Iowa Environmental Mesonet. October 4, 2001 Dennis Todey Iowa State University. Iowa Environmental Mesonet. History IEM – What is it? Assessment Current Products & Web site Input from YOU!. IEM – How is it different?. Other mesonets have been built from scratch at great cost.

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Iowa Environmental Mesonet

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  1. Iowa Environmental Mesonet October 4, 2001 Dennis Todey Iowa State University

  2. Iowa Environmental Mesonet • History • IEM – What is it? • Assessment • Current Products & Web site • Input from YOU!

  3. IEM – How is it different? Other mesonets have been built from scratch at great cost. The IEM attempts to capitalize on existing resources and supplement them. This can be a model for other states and the nation.

  4. What we are lacking • Central data facility (archive) • Data comparison standards • Detailed soil temperature data • Regular soil moisture data • Complete state coverage • Short term data (from 2 days - 6 weeks)

  5. Automated Stations

  6. Iowa Environmental Mesonet

  7. Potential Users • Farmers/Producers • Emergency managers • Citizenry • Industry • Education (K – graduate) • Climate/agricultural researchers • NWS

  8. Cooperators/Supporters • National Weather Service • Iowa State University • Insurance Industry • USDA OCE • Iowa DOT • IDALS

  9. Improve collaboration among scientists and managers to enhance the effectiveness of observation networks, monitoring, prediction, information delivery, and applied research and to foster public understanding of and preparedness for drought.Goal 2 National Drought Policy Commission“Preparing for Drought in the 21st Century”

  10. Station densityDon’t we have enough??

  11. Maximum temperature

  12. Relative humidity

  13. Wind

  14. Precipitation

  15. Current ProductsWhat do we have now?http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu

  16. Current Productshttp://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu

  17. ISU Automated NetworkSoil Temp.

  18. ISU Automated NetworkSolar Rad.

  19. ISU Automated Network hits (2000)

  20. Products – Network comparison

  21. Products – Davenport AWOS-RWIS

  22. Products – Davenport AWOS-RWIS

  23. Products – Network comparison

  24. SCAN (Soil Climate Analysis Network)

  25. SCAN (Soil Climate Analysis Network) • Air and soil temperature • Wind • Relative humidity • Precipitation • Soil moisture • Solar radiation • Snowfall and depth

  26. Could be created daily

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