Climate Reports for Natural Resource Management and Planning

Natural resource managers often use weather and climate information to make land management decisions. While technological advancements in data acquisition and processing has led to an increase in the amount of online, climate-based tools and databases, these tools often require substantial time investment on the part of managers and are ultimately left underutilized.

This project aims to improve access to weather and climate information and increase its utilization by working directly with managers to learn what types of information they currently use and to identify information gaps. Through a collaborative process, highly-specialized and customized reports are designed for their land management units using open source code and readily available data. The main thrust of this project is to develop a code base of R scripts that access, process and visualize these different datasets. With flexible and adaptable code, custom reports can be quickly developed and adapted for any land management unit and updated frequently. Ultimately, this code base can deployed to automatically generate and push numerous reports at frequent intervals to managers working in different management units as a climate service or adapted and run in-house by managers themselves.

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Snapshot of example report