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CLIMWAT, A Climatic Database

Entry ID: climwat

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Summary

Abstract: CLIMWAT is a climatic database to be used in combination with the computer program CROPWAT and allows the ready calculation of crop water requirements, irrigation supply and irrigation scheduling for various crops for a range of climatological stations worldwide.

The CLIMWAT database includes data from a total of 3262 meteorological stations from 144 countries. CLIMWAT is published as Irrigation and Drainage paper No 49 in 1994 and includes a Manual with description of the use of the database with CROPWAT The data are contained in five diskettes included in the publication and can be ordered as FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 49 through the FAO Sales and Marketing Group.

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 90.0

S: -90.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Water Resources, Development and Management Service

Dataset Title: CLIMWAT, A Climatic Database

Dataset Release Date: unknown

Dataset Release Place: Rome, Italy

Dataset Publisher: Water Resources, Development and Management Service, FAO

Data Presentation Form: database

Online Resource: http://www.fao.org/nr/water/infores_databases_climwat.html

Location Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL

Science Keywords

AGRICULTURE > AGRICULTURAL PLANT SCIENCE > CROP/PLANT YIELDS

AGRICULTURE > AGRICULTURAL PLANT SCIENCE > IRRIGATION

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

HEALTH

Ancillary Keywords

Climate Diagnostics

Cholera

Data Center

National Academy of Science, National Academies

Data Center URL: http://nationalacademies.org/
Dataset ID: PNAS-StandardizedSOI_CholeraDeathsBangladesh

Data Center Personnel
Name: GENERAL QUESTIONS Phone: 1-202-334-2679 Fax: 1-202-334-2739 Email: pnas at nas.edu Contact Address: PNAS 700 11th Street, NW Suite 450 City: Washington, DC Postal Code: 20001 Country: USA

Publications/References

Xavier Rodó, Mercedes Pascual, George Fuchs, and A. S. G. Faruque, ENSO and cholera: A nonstationary link related to climate change?, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 2002, vol. 99 no.20 12901-12906 doi: 10.1073/pnas.182203999 (http://www.pnas.org/content/99/20/12901.abstract)

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2009-12-09

Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-12-09

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