A copula-based joint deficit index for droughts

31 Mar 2010 | Contributor(s): Rao S Govindaraju

Current drought information is based on indices that do not capture the joint behaviors of hydrologic variables. To address this limitation, the potential of copulas in characterizing droughts from multiplevariables is explored in this study. Starting from the standardized index (SI) algorithm, a...

A seasonal-scale climatological analysis correlating spring tornadic activity with antecedent fall–winter drought in the southeastern United States

14 Jun 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Dev Niyogi

Using rain gauge and satellite-based rainfall climatologies and the NOAA Storm PredictionCenter tornado database (1952–2007), this study found a statistically significant tendency forfall–winter drought conditions to be correlated with below-normal tornado days the followingspring in north...

A spatio-temporal drought analysis for the Midwestern US

15 Jun 2009 | Publications | Contributor(s): Rao S Govindaraju, Dev Niyogi

Droughts are prolonged abnormalities of moisture deficits that vary widely across temporal and spatial scales. Many hydrometeorologic variables are used to monitor the status of a drought. However, because of the dependence structure between all affecting variables under various temporal windows,...

AgMIP GEOSHARE Tool with iData Integration Demo

06 Mar 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Christoph Mí_ller, Jaewoo Shin, Christopher Panza, Lan Zhao

Aggregate yield shocks provided by the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID) from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level

AgMIP Tool: A GEOSHARE tool for aggregating outputs from the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID)

09 Jul 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, joshua elliott, Christoph Müller, Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao

Aggregate the yield shocks provided by the AgMIP project from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level.

An open source geospatial cyberinfrastructure for interdisciplinary collaboration and broader engagement

26 Oct 2017 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song

Solving complex global problems demands that researchers from different disciplines work together, and their analytical tools, models and datasets interoperate. This is especially true in the context of sustainability. For instance, multiple goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development...

Cyberinfrastructure for the collaborative development of U2U decision support tools

10 Nov 2016 | Publications | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Christopher Panza

This paper describes the use of cyberinfrastructure to create interactive applications as part of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. These applications transform historical climate data, knowledge, and models into decision support tools for end users such as crop farmers, uni- versity Extension...

Developing A Collaborative Environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) Project

10 Nov 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski

HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...

Developing A Collaborative Environment for Useful to Useable (U2U) Project

10 Nov 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski

HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...

Energy prices will play an important role in determining global land use in the twenty first century

31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Tom Hertel

Global land use research to date has focused on quantifying uncertainty effects of three major drivers affecting competition for land: the uncertainty in energy and climate policies affecting competition between food and biofuels, the uncertainty of climate impacts on agriculture and forestry,...

Evaluation Reports

18 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Whitney Meredith

An evaluation team perodically examines our progress towards defined project objectives. During year 1, three such evaluations are scheduled. As these are completed, the report will be added to this resource.

Graphical User Interface for the California Food-Energy-Water System (CALFEWS) simulation model

22 Jan 2021 | Tools | Contributor(s): Andrew L Hamilton, Harrison Zeff, Keyvan Malek, Jonathan Herman, Jonathan Cohen, Josue Medellin-Azuara, Patrick M. Reed, Gregory W. Characklis

Graphical User Interface for the California Food-Energy-Water System (CALFEWS) simulation model

iData Walkthrough

21 Oct 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam

This video demonstrates the features of the GABBs iData data management building block such as automatic metadata extraction and geospatial file preview. It also walks through how iData files can be used in both hub tools and publications. 

Land, Environment and Climate: Contributing to the Global Public Good

31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

This paper discusses global public goods related to the world's land resources, their current provision and likely future provision, their potential impacts on the world's poorest households, as well as prospects for using foreign assistance to enhance these outcomes. Specifically, the...

LANDPARAM

20 Jul 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Nelson Benjamin Villoria (contributor)

A tool to aggregate cropland supply and land transformation elasticities

Market-mediated environmental impacts of biofuels

31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Wallace E. Tyner

This paper surveys the evidence on market-mediated environmental impacts of biofuels, with special attention to the indirect greenhouse gas emissions stemming from land cover change in the wake of increased demand for biofuel feedstocks. We find clear evidence that market mediated land use...

PEGASUS (Predicting Ecosystem Goods And Services Using Scenarios)

14 Jul 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Delphine, Navin Ramankutty, I Luk Kim, Rajesh Kalyanam

A GEOSHARE tool for conducting live simulations using PEGASUS (Predicting Ecosystem Goods And Services Using Scenarios)

Presentation of GABBs at Brown Dog Workshop

09 Sep 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Carol Song

This is a presentation given at the first Brown Dog user workshop, Urbana, IL, July 2014.

PyMapLib for Rapid Development of Geospatial Data Analysis Tools

02 Aug 2016 | Publications | Contributor(s): Wei Wan, Lan Zhao, Jaewoo Shin, Shandian Zhe, Carol Song

This is the presentation at CyberGIS 2016 conference introducing pyMapLib, a generic Python mapping library developed as part of the NSF funded GABBS project.

Remote Sensing Analysis on HUBzero

16 Sep 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl

MultiSpec is a remote sensing analysis tool being developed on MyGeoHub.org as part of the Geospatial Analysis Building Blocks (GABBs) NSF-funded and the IndianaView/AmericaView USGS-funded projects. The tool has been adapted from the desktop Macintosh and Windows versions...