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

10 Nov 2014 | 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...

Broadening Access to Geospatial Capabilities

07 Nov 2014 | Contributor(s): Carol Song

This is a presentation at Purdue GIS Day on November 7, 2014.

Broadening Access to Geospatial Capabilities

06 Nov 2014 | Contributor(s): Carol Song, Larry Biehl, Venkatesh Merwade, Nelson Benjamin Villoria

This is a presentation at HUBbub 2014

GABBS Project Overview

06 Nov 2014 | Contributor(s): Carol Song

This is a presentation at DIBBS PI meeting on August 11, 2014.

Climate change mitigation policies and poverty in developing countries

31 Jul 2014 | Contributor(s): Zekarias Hussein, Tom Hertel, Alla Golub

Mitigation of the potential impacts of climate change is one of the leading policy concerns of the 21st century. However, there continues to be heated debate about the nature, the content and, most importantly, the impact of the policy actions needed to limit greenhouse gas emissions. One...

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.

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

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

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.

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.

U2U Progress Timeline (graphic)

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

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 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.

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 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.

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 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...

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...

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.