Agricultural Applied Climate Information System AgACIS

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Agricultural Applied Climate Information System
(AgACIS)

• AgACIS is a cooperative effort between the
  Regional Climate Centers and the National Water
  Climate Center
• Purpose To provide basic climatic data and
  analysis for Conservation Planning
• Limited to use with in the Department of
  Agricultural

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AgACIS

• Data Set
• NWS Cooperative Network
• SNOTEL (Snow Telemetry Network)
• CSCAN (Cooperative Soil Climate Analysis Network)

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AgACIS

• Stations
• NWS Cooperative Network active stations that
  report no more than 3 months behind
• SNOTEL active stations
• CSCAN active stations

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Accessing AgACIS

• Integrated into My.NRCS within the electronic
  Field Office Technical Guide (eFOTG)
• Access Examples
• Oregon
• Colorado -

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Using AgACIS

• AgACIS Interface
• Example Service Center/Field Office Access
• Contact the NRCS Climate Data Liaison in each
  state for information

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Using AgACIS

• AgACIS Examples
• Wetlands Corvallis, Oregon
• Wetlands Table July 2006
• Precipitation Data July 2006
• Seeding Bend, Oregon
• Taps Temperature Precipitation Summary
• June July 2006
• June July 2005

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Using AgACIS

• AgACIS Examples
• Precipitation Events
• July 1997 flood, Fort Collins, Colorado

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AgACIS Accessibility

• Not available to the public at this time
• Broad release depends on access impacts to ACIS
  as a whole
• Implementation of a Web Service to provide direct
  data input for modeling and forecasting
  applications will be the next phase of the AgACIS
  Project