 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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