Monitoring Climate Change software uses local weather data to predict trends
by The Daily Eye Team January 7 2014, 8:26 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 45 secsScientists have developed a new software that gives anyone the opportunity to know their community, state or country’s weather activity for the day and months ahead.
Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) designed the software Monitoring Climate Change (Moclic) through which it is possible to organise, store and operate geo-referenced data from climate elements.
Moclic can calculate bio and agroclimatic indicators, such as humidity, aridity, rain erosion and rainfall concentration, researchers said.
The software feeds on data from weather stations in any state or country, unlike current software that use global information, with which what happens in a small ranch regarding temperature can be known more accurately.
Francisco Bautista Zuniga, head of Monoclic project, points out that the software allows an agronomist to obtain annual rainfall records and relate them to the crops production figures for explanation of a possible event.