The purpose of this paper is to describe the main actions undertaken by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGSUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) in activities related to crop monitoring and forecasting in Rio Grande do Sul State, the most southern state in Brazil. First the importance of agricultural activity is placed in the context of the state, showing grain production da...

A summary is given about the needs and perspectives for agrometerology in the 21st century as expressed in the papers of the Workshop (published in this volume) and subsequently expanded by invited discussants of, and in general discussions on, these papers during the Workshop. These needs and perspectives have been categorized under the headings ‘Agrometeorological services for agricultural pr...

Abstract Weather index insurance (WII) has been a promising innovation that protects smallholder farmers against drought risks and provides resilience adverse rainfall conditions. However, the uptake of WII hampered by high spatial intraseasonal basis risk. To minimize risk, standard approaches to designing based on seasonal cumulative have shown be ineffective in some cases because they do not...

Often in agrometeorology the instrumentation required to estimate turbulent surface fluxes must be installed at sites where fetch is not sufficient for a sector of wind directions. For different integrated flux-footprints (IFFP) thresholds and taking as reference half-hourly latent heat (LE) measured with large weighing lysimeter (LELys), eddy covariance (EC) method two methods based on renewal...