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- Winter 1999 "Update" Newsletter Article -
Many World Wide Web sites link to CIMIS
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The proliferation of the World Wide Web has made it easy to obtain all kinds of agricultural information and data. This is certainly true for CIMIS information and weather data. Many web sites have links to the CIMIS web site while other sites provide CIMIS data with additional refinement.
Several of these web sites were created in cooperation with CIMIS. There are three sites that come to mind: University of California Integrated Pest Management (UCIPM) project, Pomology Weather Services, and Wateright.
University of California Integrated Pest Management project
The Statewide IPM project at the University of California Davis uses temperature data from CIMIS to calculate degree-days. The database originated in 1980 as part of the original IMPACT on-line computer system. It stores both current and historical daily weather data for all 100 CIMIS weather stations. In 1996 it was converted to run on a new computer, with access through the World Wide Web at http://www.ipm.ucdavsi.edu.
Pomology Weather Services
Pomology Weather Services was created to fulfill the need for a simple and efficient way to receive timely tree crop information related to weather, specifically for California fruit and nut growers, researchers and industry. This service is run by the Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center at the University of California Davis. This winter, the center started calculating chilling accumulation using hourly temperature data from CIMIS.
Chilling accumulation is only the first project for this service. The Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center hopes to continue projects with researchers and industry in areas such as using weather data to study fruit development and predict harvest dates. Their address is http://fruitsandnuts.ucdavis.edu/weather/
Wateright
The Wateright program, developed by the Center for Irrigation Technology (CIT) at California State University, Fresno, has an on-line database located at http://www.wateright.org. This site includes data from 98 CIMIS stations. It is designed both to be an educational tutorial about weather-based irrigation scheduling and to provide irrigation schedule guidelines for local sites.
For More CIMIS information....
CIMIS information is published quarterly in the CATI Update newsletter. Articles are provided by the California Department of Water Resources, CIMIS program staff.
For more information about CIMIS or its programs, contact any of the following representatives at these offices:
Northern District
Eugene Pixley
(916) 529-7329
pixley@water.ca.govSan Joaquin District
Kent Frame
(559) 445-5428
kframe@water.ca.govCentral District
Mark Rivera
(916) 227-7603
mrivera@water.ca.govSouthern District
Sergio Fierro
(818) 543-4601
sergiof@water.ca.govIf you are unable to reach a CIMIS representative near you, call the CIMIS Helpline at 1-800-922-4647.
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