At 02:01 AM 10/10/2005, you wrote:
>Dear Mechele,
>This software sounds great. I will request for a copy.
>
>Lyamchai
>
>On 7 Oct 2005 at 16:46, Bernardi, Michele (SDRN) wrote:
>
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > this is to announce the publication of the New_LocClim, a
>software cum
> > database that aims at estimating climate averages for any location
>on
> > land, based on the almost 30,000 stations in the FAO agroclimatic
> > database.
> >
> > The New_LocClim results from a collaboration between FAO and
>the
> > German Weather Service (DWD), more specifically the Global
> > Precipitation Climatology Center. The user can select between
>nine
> > interpolation techniques (kriging, thin plate splines, inverse
> > distance weighting, etc) to prepare maps, extract data in various
> > formats for further processing or display graphs for point locations.
> > The software works also with user provided data.
> >
> > Version 1.03 of the New_LocClim can be downloaded from
> > ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/SD/SDR/Agromet/New_LocClim/ (file
> > <<NewLocClim050725.zip>>). For a description of the
>New_LocClim and
> > other tools, refer to sections 3.2, 3.3. and 3.4 in file
> > <<FAO_software.pdf>> available from the same FTP site.
> >
> > Colleagues who have no easy access to FTP, or who would prefer
>a
> > CD-ROM version with New_LocClim, FAOCLIM 2 and other
>software and
> > databases), can request it free of charge from
> > [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] and
>providing your
> > mailing address.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Michele Bernardi
> > Environment and Natural Resources Service (SDRN)
> > Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
>Viale
> > delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 Rome (Italy) Tel: +39-06-
>57052442; Fax:
> > +39-06-57053369 E-mail: [log in to unmask]  Web site:
> > www.fao.org Tsunami agroclimatic data:
> > http://www.fao.org/tsunami/environment/agromet.html
>Environmental
> > information: www.fao.org/sd/ENdef_en.htm
> >
>
>
>Charles J. Lyamchai
>Senior Agricultural Research Officer
>
>Selian Agricultural Research Institute
>P. O. Box 6024,
>Arusha, Tanzania
>
>Tel. 255 027 2505675 (0ffice)
>        255 027 2509356 (resident)
>        0744 278211 (mobile)
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