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

    08 Sep 2017 | 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...

  2. Economic impacts of climate change on agriculture: A comparison of process-based and statistical yield models

    07 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Frances C Moore, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel

    A large number of studies have been published examining the implications of climate change for agricultural productivity that, broadly speaking, can be divided into process-based modeling and statistical approaches. Despite a general perception that results from these methods differ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. The GABBs Report - Building Geospatial Capability in HUBzero

    15 Sep 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song

    Geospatial data are present everywhere today with the proliferation of location-aware computing devices. This is especially true in the scientific community where large amounts of data are driving research and education activities in many domains. Collaboration over geospatial data, for example,...

  6. Climate Scenario Aggregator

    09 Sep 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Christoph Müller, Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao

    Climate Scenario Aggregator

  7. 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...

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. Climate change mitigation policies and poverty in developing countries

    31 Jul 2014 | Publications | 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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.

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

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

  14. U2U Progress Timeline (graphic)

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

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...