Weather Data Grids for Agriculture Risk Management : The Case of Honduras and Guatemala

Weather Data Grids for Agriculture Risk Management : The Case of Honduras and Guatemala

One of the major constraints for the improvement of agricultural risk management in Central America, and in particular to the development of weather index-based insurance, is the availability of complete meteorological data. Limitations with the da...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Other Agricultural Study
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
ABSORPTION
AIR
ALBEDO
ALTITUDE
APPLIED METEOROLOGY
AREA
ASPECT
ATMOSPHERE
ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
ATMOSPHERIC MODELS
ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
AUTOCORRELATION
BLUE
CENTER
CENTRE
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS
CLIMATE DATA
CLIMATE MODELS
CLIMATE PREDICTION
CLIMATE REGIMES
CLIMATE RESEARCH
CLIMATE RESEARCH UNIT
CLIMATES
CLIMATIC EVENTS
CLIMATOLOGY
CLOUDS
COLORS
CONVERGENCE
CRU
DAILY PRECIPITATION
DATA MODEL
DOMAIN
DROUGHT
DROUGHT INSURANCE
DROUGHT RISK
EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
EXTREME CLIMATIC EVENTS
EXTREME EVENTS
FLOOD
FLOODS
FROST
GASES
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
GIS
HURRICANES
HYDROLOGY
HYDROMETEOROLOGY
INTERPOLATION
KRIGING
LAND SURFACE
LAND-SURFACE
MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE
MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES
METEOROLOGICAL DATA
METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES
METEOROLOGY
MINIMUM TEMPERATURE
MINIMUM TEMPERATURES
NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE
PARTICULATES
PRECIPITATION
RAIN
RAINFALL
RAINFALL PATTERNS
REGIONAL ANALYSIS
SCIENTISTS
SEA LEVEL PRESSURE
SEASON
SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX
SLOPE
SNOW
SOLAR RADIATION
SPATIAL ANALYSIS
SPATIAL RESOLUTION
SURFACE EVAPORATION
SURFACE GRADIENT
SURFACE MODEL
TEMPERATURE
TEMPERATURES
TEMPORAL RESOLUTION
VULNERABLE REGIONS
WEATHER
WEATHER DATA
WEATHER FORECASTS
WEATHER INSURANCE
WEATHER RECORDS
WEATHER SERVICES
WEATHER STATION
WEATHER STATIONS
WEATHER VARIABLES
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17731954/weather-data-grids-agriculture-risk-management-case-honduras-guatemala
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16501

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17731954/weather-data-grids-agriculture-risk-management-case-honduras-guatemala
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16501

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