WMO OSCAR | Application Area: 2.9 Agricultural Meteorology

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Application: 2.9 Agricultural Meteorology

Details

Name	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology
Description	Applications of meteorology to agriculture (agrometeorology).
Organization	World Meteorological Organization
Focal Point	Robert Stefanski rStefanski@wmo.int
Earth System Application Category	2. Atmospheric Applications

Variables measured in this Application Area

Subdomain	Variables
Basic atmospheric	Air specific humidity (near surface) Air temperature (near surface) Atmospheric temperature Wind speed (near surface) Wind vector (near surface)
Clouds and precipitations	Accumulated precipitation Precipitation intensity at surface (liquid or solid) Precipitation intensity at surface (solid)
Aerosols and radiation	Downward short-wave irradiance at Earth surface Fraction of Absorbed PAR (FAPAR)
Ocean	pCO2
Land surface	Fire fractional cover Fire temperature Land cover Land surface temperature Leaf Area Index (LAI) Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) Snow cover Snow water equivalent Soil moisture at surface Soil type Vegetation type Evapotranspiration Soil temperature Wind gust
Atmospheric chemistry	O3

Requirements defined for 2.9 Agricultural Meteorology (14)

This tables shows all related requirements. For more operations/filtering, please consult the full list of Requirements
Note: In reading the values, goal is marked blue, breakthrough green, threshold orange
Application-dependent Technical Priority (ATP) Magenta and Relative priority of the attributes Red

Id	Variable	Layer	App Area	Uncertainty	Hor Res	Obs Cyc	Timeliness	Coverage	Conf Level	Val Date	Source	General Comment
31	Accumulated precipitation	Near Surface	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology	2 mm 5 mm 10 mm	0.25 km 20 km 50 km	24 h 36 h 3 d	24 h 30 h 2 d	Global	reasonable	2003-10-20	ET ODRRGOS	Evaluation of soil moisture and avail to plants
36	Fire fractional cover	Land surface	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology	5 % 8 % 20 %	0.01 km 0.1 km 10 km	6 h 10 h 24 h	60 min 109 min 6 h	Global land	reasonable	2003-10-20	ET ODRRGOS	Saturation lvl not reached before fire detected
37	Fire temperature	Land surface	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology	50 K 80 K 200 K	0.01 km 0.1 km 10 km	6 h 10 h 24 h	60 min 109 min 6 h	Global land	reasonable	2003-10-20	ET ODRRGOS	Saturation lvl not reached before fire detected
38	Fraction of Absorbed PAR (FAPAR)	Land surface	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology	5 % 8 % 20 %	5 km 13.6 km 100 km	60 min 6 h 7 d	24 h 2 d 5 d	Global land	reasonable	2003-10-20	ET ODRRGOS	Photosynthesis estimation; crop procductivity eval
39	Land cover	Land surface	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology	0.1 Classes^-1 0.13 Classes^-1 0.25 Classes^-1	100 m 215 m 1000 m	1 y 1 y 2 y	10 d 15 d 30 d	Global land	reasonable	2003-10-20	ET ODRRGOS	Land utilization map composition
40	Land surface temperature	Land surface	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology	0.3 K 0.6 K 2 K	0.1 km 0.5 km 10 km	60 min 3 h 3 d	3 h 6 h 24 h	Global land	reasonable	2003-10-20	ET ODRRGOS	Detection of areas affected by frost; drought eval
41	Leaf Area Index (LAI)	Land surface	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology	5 % 7 % 10 %	0.01 km 0.1 km 10 km	5 d 6 d 7 d	24 h 41 h 5 d	Global land	reasonable	2003-10-20	ET ODRRGOS	Evapotranspiration estimation; crop productivity
42	Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)	Land surface	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology	5 % 7 % 10 %	0.03 km 2.2 km 10 km	24 h 46 h 7 d	24 h 41 h 5 d	Global land	reasonable	2003-10-20	ET ODRRGOS	Event detection; crop state estimation
45	Precipitation intensity at surface (liquid or solid)	Near Surface	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology		0.25 km 1 km 10 km	8 min 30 min 2 h		Global	tentative	2003-01-01	WMO TD No. 1052, SAT-26	Unknown
47	Snow cover	Land surface	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology	2 % 4 % 10 %	1 km 2.2 km 10 km	5 d 6 d 7 d	24 h 44 h 6 d	Global land	reasonable	2003-10-20	ET ODRRGOS	Evaluation of crop wintering
48	Snow water equivalent	Land surface	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology	5 mm 23.2 mm 500 mm	30 km 2.2 km 10 km	7 d 11 d 30 d	24 h 46 h 7 d	Global land	reasonable	2003-10-20	ET ODRRGOS	Evaluation of soil water storage in spring
49	Soil moisture at surface	Land surface	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology	0.01 m³ /m³ 0.017 m³ /m³ 0.05 m³ /m³	0.1 km 0.215 km 1 km	24 h 46 h 7 d	24 h 41 h 5 d	Global land	reasonable	2003-10-20	ET ODRRGOS	Crop state and productivity estimation
50	Soil type	Land surface	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology	0.0666 Classes ^-1 0.1 Classes ^-1 0.2 Classes ^-1	0.1 km 1 km 10 km	356 d 1 y 2 y	10 d 15 d 30 d	Global land	reasonable	2003-10-20	ET ODRRGOS	Crop state estimation, soil moisture evaluation
51	Vegetation type	Land surface	2.9 Agricultural Meteorology	0.033 Classes^-1 0.06 Classes^-1 0.2 Classes^-1	50 m 100 m 500 m	30 d 40 d 60 d	24 h 2 d 7 d	Global land	reasonable	2003-10-20	ET ODRRGOS	Land utilization map composition; crop eval