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