New Mexico State Climatology Program

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New Mexico State Climatology Program

• Ted Sammis State Climatologist

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A Climatologist

• A person dealing with the science of climate and
  climatic phenomena
• Climate- the prevailing or average weather
  conditions of a place as determined by the
  temperature and meteorological changes over a
  period of years.

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A Meteorologist

• A person dealing with the science of the
  atmosphere and atmospheric phenomena a study of
  weather.
• Weather the general condition of the atmosphere
  at a particular time and place

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How Climate Relates to other disciplines
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The State Climate program was created in 1979
but not funded.

• The "office of state climatologist" is created
  within the New Mexico department of agriculture.
  The administrative and executive head of the
  office of state climatologist shall be known as
  the "state climatologist". The board of regents
  of New Mexico State University shall appoint and
  fix the salary of the state climatologist.
• History Laws 1979, ch. 192, I.

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Memorandum of Agreement

• A memorandum of Agreement has transferred the
  responsibilities of the State climatologist from
  the New Mexico Dept. of Agriculture to the
  Agricultural Experimentation Station New Mexico
  State University as of January, 1997.

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• The duties of the state climatologist shall
  include
• Assess the effect of climate on the natural
  environment, agricultural production, land and
  natural resources and human health
• Coordination programs to improve understanding of
  climate processes, and the social and economic
  implications of climate change
• Develop methods for state agencies and public
  institutions of higher education to participate
  in the program
• Disseminating climate data, information, advice
  and assessments to state agencies, local public
  bodies and the general public
• Consult and coordination with the federal
  government and other states in climate related
  activities

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New Mexico State Climate Center New Home Page
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Email Response to questions

• Natashia Billy,Civil Engineer,Lynx Ltd.,
• NASA-WSTF
• I was wondering if there are any weather stations
  near the NASA-WSTF
• Answer- do not know of a station at the
  NASA-WSTF. Their are a lot of station on the WSMR
  You might want to contact them for information
  see
• http//155.148.19.139/

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Brad Baum Staff Hydrologist Daniel B. Stephens
and Associates in Albuquerque, NM

• I need the PDSI values through the latest
  reporting period and in the smallest increments
  possible
• Answer- see http//weather.nmsu.edu/drought/

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Chuck Liptak- private citizen

• I am interested in getting or seeing the
  precipitation records of Las Cruces NM that
  covers the past five years.
• Answer -see
• http//www.wrcc.dri.edu/summary/climsmnm.htmlsele
  ct State University for the site.

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Otis A. Farmer" ltotisafarmer_at_totacc.com

• I gave one talk to Oral History on the dustbowl
  got rainfall data from NMSU. Could you send me
  by e-mail the average annual rainfall for this
  area from 1940.
• Answer- attached is an excell spreedsheet with
  the monthly and yearly results. Missing data by
  months makes the yearly results not valid for a
  lot of years. 9999 is missing data. The
  spreadsheet numbers need to be divided by 100 to
  get inches.

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Raymond Chudley" ltrfc_at_rchudley.freeserve.co.ukgt

• The state Climate Office gets question concerning
  Mexico
• My great grand daughter has a school project, she
  is 8 years old. She needs to know when it was the
  coldest year and the hottest year in Mexico
• Answer- The weather in Mexico changes depending
  on location see http//weather.yahoo.com/forecast/
  MXVZ2105.html

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Lucki, KathieAnn" ltkathieann.lucki_at_state.co.us

• Per our conversation a few seconds ago, I am
  looking forward to the information you will be
  sending me on the weather modification programs
  in N. Mexico.
• Answer- see http//www.weathermod.com/
• http//www.weathermod.com/abilene.htm
• http//www.michie.com/
• http//weather.nmsu.edu/haildamage/hail.htm

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NMSU Student

• Hello I am a student at the University of New
  Mexico, and in my summer English 102 class we are
  suppose to be writing an argumentative essay
  about the drought and possible water saving
  solutions. I came across your name and I was
  wondering if you could help me by sending me any
  related pieces of work that you have done on this
  subject
• Answer- see http//weather.nmsu.edu/drought/

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Brussell, Associate PlannerNorthwest New Mexico
Council of Governments

• Hi Dr. Sammis I have looked on the web and can
  not find this specific range of data. Can you
  tell me where to find it? I am preparing a
  comprehensive plan for the Village of Milan and
  would like the last 10 years precip data. Thank
  you. Brussell
• Answer The average precipitation for the last 10
  years is 10.41inches

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Temperatures for la union

• Thanks for your help in obtaining these. Mitzi
  Hobson _at_ Milagro Vineyards,Inc
• Answer-sorry but I was busy, the data is
  attached.To get the data go to
• http//weather.nmsu.edu/map/map.htm

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Melissa Gibbs-Augabright Sr. Recruiting
Specialist,Reliant Energy Wholesale Division,
Reliant Resources, Inc.

• Would you be so kind as to offer assistance or
  direction to me? I am a Corporate Recruiter with
  Reliant Energy in Houston, TX. My management has
  charged me with the task of finding an
  experienced Climatologist for our Weather Group
  (which supports our energy traders) and I'm not
  finding it to be an easy undertaking.
• Answer-sign on and send an email to
  CLIMLIST_at_LISTS.PSU.EDU This goes to all people
  interested in climatology.

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Abraham J. Franklin Environmental Specialist
Surface Water Quality BureauNew Mexico
Environment Department

• Please send bibliographic info for
  -Miamoto's (sp?) pecan crop coefficient study
• -California pistachio crop coefficient study
• -URL with contact info and/or citation for
  Salime's "Bibliography of evapotranspiration with
  special emphasis on riparian plants"
• Answer next slide

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Answer

• see
• http//weather.nmsu.edu/nmcrops/Trees/Pecans/pecan
  scoef.html for pecan crop coefficients and
  reference
• see http//tamarisk.nmsu.edu/
• http//tamarisk.nmsu.edu/information/publication.h
  tm

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Timothy PeterAssociated Earth Sciences,
Inc.Kirkland, Washington

• I am trying to estimate PET using the SCS Blaney
  Criddle method for a residential area but am
  having trouble coming up with crop coefficients
  for lawn and/or suburban landscaping. Any
  information that you have on this would be most
  appreciated.
• Answer-Crop coefficients for lawns are for
  Penman equation or for Samani's eqation which
  only uses temperature see http//weather.nmsu.edu/
  nmcrops/grasses/warm-season/warmsgpetc.htm and
  http//weather.nmsu.edu/nmcrops/grasses/cool-seaso
  n/coolsgpetc.htm and http//weather.nmsu.edu/nmcro
  ps/grasses/Turfgrass-Report.pdf

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Conclusion

• Many requests for climate data and water use
  information are answered by the New Mexico
  Climate Center.
• The New Mexico Climate Center not only operates a
  climate data collection system but processes the
  data and develops tools that use climate data
  from all New Mexico climate collection system to
  answer questions.