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  1. GEOSHARE: Geospatial Open Source Hosting of Agriculture, Resource & Environmental Data for Discovery and Decision Making

    31 Jul 2014 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Nelson Benjamin Villoria

    GEOSHARE White PaperStanley Wood, IFPRI, Wolfgang Britz, University of Bonn, Glenn Hyman, CIAT, Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford University, Andrew Nelson, IRRI, Navin Ramankutty, McGill University, Stefan Siebert, University of Bonn, Foresight Programme, UK Secretary of State for Business, Innovation...

  2. JOINT WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT Approaches for Improving Data and Models To Support Food System Sustainability Modeling

    30 Jul 2014 | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria

    Flyer for the joint workshop from GEOSHARE and CIMSANS

  3. 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.

  4. U2U Selected Research Highlights

    18 Feb 2013 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    This short document overviews some of the recent research findings from the U2U project.

  5. U2U Poster - Oct 2012

    27 Nov 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.

  6. U2U Progress Timeline (graphic)

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

  7. 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.

  8. U2U Fact Sheet - October 2012

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

    The U2U fact sheet is a brief handout describing project objectives and participants.

  9. 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.

  10. U2U Objective 2 Fact Sheet

    24 Jan 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    The U2U Objective 2 Fact Sheet briefly describes the planned and ongoing research activities, as well as participants, of the Objective 2 Working Group.

  11. U2U Objective 1 Fact Sheet

    24 Jan 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    The U2U Objective 1 Fact Sheet briefly describes the planned and ongoing research activities, as well as participants, of the Objective 1 Working Group.

  12. U2U Fact Sheet - October 2011

    28 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    The U2U fact sheet is a brief handout describing project objectives and participants.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. U2U Poster - July 2011

    22 Jul 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, Linda Prokopy

    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.Thank you to our University of Wisconsin colleagues...

  16. 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...

  17. A copula-based joint deficit index for droughts

    31 Mar 2010 | Publications | 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...

  18. 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,...