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CHIRPS Accumulated Precipitation variables now available

GDA is pleased to announce that new variables representing accumulated precipitation from the CHIRPS data source are now available under the Weather Topic.  These new variables take the precipitation statistics that are subset to administrative unit locations and represent different … Continue reading →

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Weather Topic – New temporal formats and split

We have expanded the Weather Topic so that users can choose the type of temporal format to be used in a widget.  Previously, only the full start date of the period (dekad, week, month) could be selected in YYYY-MM-DD format … Continue reading →

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New Help items

New tutorials demonstrating 1) how to set up an alert to monitor data source(s) for changes and 2) how to build a chart to visualize data source forecast performance over time have been added to the Help.  You can find … Continue reading →

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Large label sizes in maps and charts now available

You can now elect for a widget to show its labels and/or titles in larger and bolder fonts.  A new <S, L> radio toggle button has been added to corresponding map/chart widget control bars.  The S (small) button is default … Continue reading →

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Crop-specific Growing Degree Day data available

GDA has completed implementation and processing of crop-specific accumulated Growing Degree Day calculations (weekly and monthly). This dataset utilizes the WMO Global Summary of Data weather station dataset to retrieve raw daily temperature min and max values. For each supported … Continue reading →

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New map classifier for percent change variables; standardized map unit labels

A new “G2” global map classifier is now available when mapping percent change variables.  The main “G” global classifier shows a gradient brown-to-green classifier with 11 classes from -40% to +40%.  The second “G2” global classifier uses the USDA NASS … Continue reading →

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Deprecated SeasonalAnalysis Widget repaired

Due to constant updates to our topics, some of the older deprecated pre-pivot widgets on the SeasonalAnalysis topic were no longer rendering correctly.  This has been fixed and they should appear correctly now.  We do encourage replacing these widgets with … Continue reading →

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New Report Date Format on Annual Crop Stats Topic

We have added a new available date format for report dates in the Annual Crop Stats Topic.  This format combines the month of release with the offset (or difference) between the calendar year of the report date and the production … Continue reading →

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Coceral statistics now available

Statistics from the latest Grains and Oilseeds reports from Coceral (www.coceral.com) are now available under the Annual Crop Stats topic.

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Pakistan Central Cotton Committee Reports & Statistics now available

The target, assessment and area sown statistics from the Pakistan Central Cotton Committee reports are now available.  The target and assessment area and production values can be found in the Annual Crop Stats Topic, while the Area Sown progress values … Continue reading →

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