Water Balance
Global food crisis looms as grain prices soar
DAILY, MONTHLY AND ANNUAL MAPS FOR 23 HYDROCLIMATE VARIABLE FOR PUERTO RICO
DAILY, MONTHLY AND ANNUAL MAPS FOR 23 HYDROCLIMATE VARIABLE FOR PUERTO RICO
Example results: Actual Evapotranspiration for the June 2012 over Puerto Rico. Units are in millimeters/month.
Hydrologic Information and Data for Puerto Rico
Hydrologic Information and Data for Puerto Rico
Additional Information:
GOES-Puerto Rico Water and Energy Balance (GOES-WEB) Algorithm
Hydrology for Puerto Rico
USGS – Island hydrology: Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Hydrogeology of the Karst of Puerto Rico
HYDROGEOLOGY OF THE PRINCIPAL SPRINGS IN PUERTO
HYDROLOG – Gobierno de Puerto Rico
Tropical cyclones and the flood hydrology of Puerto Rico
2010 Summer Specialty Conference on Tropical Hydrology
Hydrology Puerto Rico
El Yunque and PR in general received significantly less rainfall this June compared to previous three years
Rainfall maps for June 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 are shown below. Rainfall for June this years is well below normal. El Yunque appears to have received only about 1/3 of the rainfall that it received in each of the previous three years. I am not a forest ecologist, but this seems like a very bad situation to me.
Droughts in the US are widespread
Countries must fully support right to water at Rio+20 conference, says UN expert
Introducing a farm tech to reduce water and energy needs – hydrogel
Introducing a farm tech to reduce water and energy needs
This is potentially interesting, but like most stuff from private companies, they don’t want people to know how it works. So we have to trust them! Seems to me to be a dying paradigm.
Evapotranspiration in Puerto Rico, Parts 1-5 on Youtube
IITF Science Seminar Series
USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF)
Satellite-Based Daily Evapotranpiration Estimation in Puerto Rico
Presented by Eric Harmsen
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
Since this presentation was given in June of 2009, we have completed the operational version of the GOES-Puerto Rico Water and Energy Balance algorithm (GOES-PRWEB). For more information click HERE.
Course offerings next semester at UPRM: Ag Hydrology and Agroclimatology
I will be offering the following two courses next semester at UPR-Mayaguez. Please click links for more information.
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