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West Texas Mesonet Agro-Climate Monitor

Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

West Texas Mesonet Agro-Climate Monitor shows the precipitation, temperature, weather forecast for mesonet stations in West Texas. Although dependent on rainfall and other climate factors to produce crops, West Texas crop consultants, extension agents, and agricultural producers have few tools that allow them to track the current growing season’s climate conditions and determine how current conditions compare with those of past years. The West Texas Mesonet Agro-Climate Monitor (ACM), a JavaScript web application based on daily data from Texas Tech University’s mesonet weather station network, was designed to meet this need. By displaying continuously updated information on variables such as soil temperature, cumulative growing degree days (GDD), cumulative precipitation, and first freeze dates, the ACM allows producers to monitor planting conditions, track crop development, and compare current conditions with those during the previous 10 yr’s growing seasons. In illustrating how mesonet data might be used as an operational climate data resource, the ACM might also serve as a conceptual model for other high resolution climate tools that estimate measures of current climate using continuously updated daily data sets. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: West Texas Mesonet Agro-Climate Monitor. File Name: Web Page, url: https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/software/download/?softwareid=484&modecode=30-96-05-00 download page

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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Dates

Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025

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Harvested from USDA JSON

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
Publisher Agricultural Research Service
Maintainer
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Data Last Modified 2024-02-13
Public Access Level public
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License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 3137bb2a19602d62e0bd50f1ccd9694735dcc3c8b4a20684a1964c4e2369f4b3
Source Schema Version 1.1

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