Metadata Exporter

03 Apr 2018 | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam

Export geospatial file metadata to the ISO-19115 standard

Metadata for Climate Research Unit Time Series (CRU TS) 2.1

16 May 2012 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao

The CRU TS 2.1 data-set comprises 1224 monthly grids of observed climate, for the period 1901-2002, and covering the global land surface at 0.5 degree resolution. There are nine climate variables available: daily mean, minimum and maximum temperature, diurnal temperature range, precipitation, wet...

Metadata for Harvested Area and Yields of 175 crops (M3-Crops Data)

15 May 2012 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Jake R Carlson

This data collection is composed of land use data sets, generated by combining national, state, and county level census statistics along with a global data set of croplands from countries around the world for the year 2000. The resulting land use data sets depict circa the year 2000 the...

Metadata for Historical Averages of Precipitation and Temperature Data

15 May 2012 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Jake R Carlson

This dataset is composed of plots of historical time series of average precipitation (measured in inches) and temperature (measured in fahrenheit degrees) data with five year tendencies for each climate division (CD) within Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Data are...

Metadata for Indiana Hourly Precipitation Data (NCDC)

15 May 2012 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Jake R Carlson

This dataset contains hourly precipitation data from 144 COOP raingagues located in Indiana (NCDC TD3240 dataset). The main purpose of this dataset is to provide for at-site rainfall frequency analysis. Several data processing manners were taken:(1) For nearby stations with non-overlapping...

Metadata for Indiana Stream Flow Data

15 May 2012 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Jake R Carlson

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) daily streamflow dataset is the source of this dataset. Streamflow data are subjected to human interference, and therefore data contain both natural and regulated flows. This practice does not cause serious problems in flood frequency analysis (flows are...

National Initiatives Gauge Farmer Perceptions of Climate Change (press release)

05 Mar 2013 | Publications | Contributor(s): John Kriva, Melissa Widhalm

New science of climate change impacts on agriculture implies higher social cost of carbon

22 Nov 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Frances C. Moore, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel, Delavane Diaz

Despite substantial advances in climate change impact research in recent years, the scientific basis for damage functions in economic models used to calculate the social cost of carbon (SCC) is either undocumented, difficult to trace, or based on a small number of dated studies. Here we present...

POL 520/EAS 591 Great issues: climate and policy

14 Nov 2010 | Courses

The course POL 520/EAS 591, “Great issues: climate and policy”, is designed to better educate students in the use and misuse of modeling across disciplines, so that they will be better builders and consumers of integrated, complex models of coupled human/natural systems in their own careers. More...

Predicting Long Term Food Demand, Cropland Use and Prices

08 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

This paper seeks to survey, understand and reconcile the widely divergent estimates of long run global crop output, land use and price projections in the current literature. We begin by reviewing the history of such projections and the different models and assumptions used in these exercises. We...

SIMPLE-G US Web Application

11 Sep 2018 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jungha Woo, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Jaewoo Shin

SIMPLE-G US is the US version of the SIMPLE-G

The power and pain of market-based carbon policies: a global application to greenhouse gases from ruminant livestock production

08 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Benjamin Henderson, Alla A Golub, Daniel Djauhari Pambudi, Tom Hertel, Cecile Godde, Mario Herrero, Oscar Cacho, Pierre J. Gerber

The objectives of this research are to assess the greenhouse gas mitigation potential of carbon policies applied to the ruminant livestock sector [inclusive of the major ruminant species—cattle (Bos Taurus and Bos indicus), sheep (Ovis aries), and goats (Capra hircus)]— with...

The role of international trade in managing food security risks from climate change

20 Mar 2015 | Publications | Contributor(s): Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel

International trade plays an important role in facilitating global food security in the face of a changing climate. In considering this issue, it is useful to distinguish between two different time scales: inter-annual and inter-decadal. Inter-annual adjustments in international trade can play an...

U2U Accomplishment Highlights (April 2011 - Sept 2012)

17 Oct 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, John Kriva

This document provides a brief overview of the top accomplishments from the U2U project from April 2011 - Sept 2012.

U2U Overview Presentation

03 Aug 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, Linda Prokopy

This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) research project. Last updated Nov. 1, 2011.

U2U Poster - May 2012

18 May 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

This poster provides a general overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. Anyone on the U2U team is welcome to present this poster at conferences or other venues. This hi-resolution pdf is ready for priting a 3 ft. (H) by 4 ft. (W) poster.

U2U Progress Timeline (graphic)

08 Nov 2012 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, John Kriva