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Agriculture and Climate Information Viewer (ACIS) |
General |
This viewer is designed to present climatic information of importance to the
agriculture industry in Alberta and to make that information easily available
to the farming industry, agribusiness, and researchers.
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Browser Requirements |
The recommended browser for this viewer is Microsoft’s Internet Explorer -
versions 5.5 and higher. Other browsers may work but the display characteristics
and behavior might be unpredictable.
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Map Drawing times |
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When viewing maps in the Quick Viewer, users can expect display times similar
to that of any other images viewed on the web.
When viewing maps using the Climate
Mapper, display times will vary greatly depending upon the criteria selected.
There are approximately 250 million records that may be searched on a given
selection and therefore display/map drawing times can be from a minimum of 5
seconds up to a minute or longer. Users are urged not to change a selection
until the current map drawing has been completed!
When viewing maps using the Weather Mapper, display times will vary depending
on the criteria selected. Users with a high-speed connection can expect maps
to display in less than 10 seconds.
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Quick Viewer |
The Quick Viewer consists of series of static maps (beginning as far back as the
year 1901) and is available several categories. Some of the categories are:
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An Agro-climatic Atlas, which describes the climate elements relevant to
agriculture in Alberta and presents 29 sets of maps of agro-climatic characteristics.
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A series of Drought Maps, which were created to monitor that status of growing
conditions for crops.
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And a series of Soil Moisture maps, which shows data that could be used to
monitor drought potential for the upcoming growing season.
More detailed information on Quick Viewer maps is available under the “related
information tab” of this viewer.
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Climate Mapper |
The Climate Mapper is a tool that allows users to create customized maps. The maps
display climate conditions as recently as 2003 and as far back as 1901. Users
can select various measurements that have been gathered from weather stations
throughout the province and then graphically overlay the result on the map of
Alberta. The measurements that can be obtained currently are: precipitation,
mean temperature, minimum temperature, maximum temperate, relative humidity,
radiation, and wind speed. These primary selections can then be refined to
display mapping information based on a yearly, quarterly, monthly, or growing
season basis. Map coloring defaults are provided but these defaults and the
corresponding map labels can be user customized. As well, users have the
ability to zoom in to smaller geographical areas in more detail.
More detailed information on the Climate Mapper is available under the
“related information tab” of this viewer.
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Weather Mapper |
The Weather Mapper is a tool that allows users to create customized maps of
Near-real time data. The near-real time data is available upto 24:00h of the
previous day. Users
can select various measurements that have been gathered from weather stations
throughout the province and then graphically overlay the result on the map of
Alberta. Any date range can be selected by the drop-down menus on the query tab.
Map coloring defaults are provided but these defaults and the
corresponding map labels can be user customized. As well, users have the
ability to zoom in to smaller geographical areas in more detail.
More detailed information on the Weather Mapper is available under the
“related information tab” of this viewer.
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Contact Information |
For information and issues concerning the maps and the corresponding
map data please contact:
Ralph Wright -Drought Modeller @ 780-427-3556, email ralph.wright@gov.ab.ca
For information and issues concerning the Ropin’ the Web site and the functions
of the viewers please contact:
Gerard Vaillancourt – Branch Manager – Ropin’ the Web @ 780-422-6796, email
gerard.vaillancourt@gov.ab.ca
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