Climate and weather conditions have strong influence on crop growth and production. Smallholder farmers in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events or climate variability. Access to local climate information enables researchers and decision makers to make better decisions in terms of finding favorable climatic conditions for growing crops or managing risks. In general, weather stations serve as an important and dependable source of climate conditions (historical or current). However, the density of the stations is low in developing countries, and regions situated far from a station lack reliable weather information. It is often seen that a single weather station is serving data to multiple subnational units. In such cases, a spatially continuous climate data could be a better choice to fill in the information gap between sparsely located stations. Continue reading ” WorldClim 2: High Resolution Climate Surfaces for Global Land Areas”
