 The new system, called cli-MATE, representing MRCC Application
Tools Environment, is an online user-based system in which
people can obtain a myriad of weather and climate data on
various time and spatial scales: hourly, daily, monthly,
seasonal and annual, and by individual station, climate division
and state.Real-time and historical climate data is accessible
from around the United States, and registrants also have access
to value-added tools, such as customizable charts of climate
data, growing season statistics, degree-day products and graphs,
freeze statistics, ranking of climate values, gridded maps of
climate data and averages over various regions, and much more.
Using the data and value-added tools available on cli-MATE,
people can answer questions such as: "How many growing
degree-days have there been in my location since I planted my
crops on April 16?" "This summer it hardly rained in my town.
Was this the driest summer on record?" "When does the first
measurable snowfall typically occur each season in my city?"
"What were the highest precipitation totals in my county during
the heavy rainstorm last week?"
To have access to cli-MATE, a user must register first, which
can be easily done by clicking "Register Here" on the top right
of the cli-MATE home page:
http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/CLIMATE/.
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The Midwestern Regional Climate Center also provides other resources
to obtain climate information, including real-time data and other
resources from Midwest Climate Watch,
http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/cliwatch/watch.htm, and the MRCC
Mobile Maps,
http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/m/. For users who would like to
download and access large amounts of climate data, the center is
still offering services to help with those needs through the service
office: email
mrcc@isws.illinois.edu.
[Text from file received from
Midwestern Regional Climate Center]
The Midwestern Regional Climate Center
is a cooperative program of the Illinois State Water Survey at the
Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, and the National
Climatic Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.
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