Hawai’i Grass Atlas
Contributed by Kevin Faccenda Visit the atlas at: http://mauu.net/atlas/ The Hawai‘i Grass Atlas website features maps of every grass, native or not, now present across ka pae ‘āina o Hawai‘i. …
Mapping Daily Air Temperature Over the Hawaiian Islands From 1990 to 2021 via an Optimized Piecewise Linear Regression Technique
Contributed by Dr. Keri Kodama View the full paper at: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA002851 A new paper on mapping daily air temperature was recently published by Dr. Keri Kodama, an East-West Center Fellow …
Deriving gridded hourly rainfall on Oʻahu by combining gauge network and radar rainfall
Contributed by Dr. Yu-Fen Huang. If you have any questions regarding the paper, please contact Dr. Yu-Fen Huang (yfhuang@hawaii.edu) and Dr. Yinphan Tsang (tsangy@hawaii.edu). Accurately estimating precipitation in Hawaiʻi presents a …
A Century of Drought in Hawai‘i
Contributed by Abby Frazier (abbyf@hawaii.edu) Drought is a regular and natural component of the climate in Hawaiʻi with severe effects across many sectors statewide. This paper provides a comprehensive synthesis …
Climate change impacts shifting landscape of the dairy industry in Hawai‘i
Photo credit: Dr. C.N. Lee Contributed by Mandeep Adhikari: mandeep@hawaii.edu Future projections indicated that air temperature would increase 1.3 to 1.8 °C by mid-century and 1.6 to 3.2 °C by the …
Diagnosing Hawai‘i’s Recent Drought
Contributed by Henry Diaz (hfdiaz@hawaii.edu) Read the full article: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/35/13/JCLI-D-21-0754.1.xml Hawai‘i’s recent drought is among the most severe on record. Wet-season (November-April) rainfall deficits during 2010–2019 rank second lowest among …
Follow the Drop mobile app and data platform
Follow the Drop is a mobile app and data platform that supports municipal green stormwater infrastructure planning and incentive programs. It is currently be used by the City and County …
Optimizing Automated Kriging to Improve Spatial Interpolation of Monthly Rainfall over Complex Terrain
Mapping rainfall over the complex topography of Hawai‘i is not easy. It’s difficult to produce a good quality map that captures the extreme gradients and spatial variability of rainfall in …
Climate Adaptation for Tropical Island Land Stewardship: Adapting a Workshop Planning Process to Hawai‘i
Read the full article by Longman et al. here Tropical island ecosystems are highly vulnerable to the multiple threats of climate change (Nurse et al. 2014; Bonan 2008). In response, …
Developing a real time tool to identify the likelihood of avian malaria insitu development to help the targeting of mosquito control efforts
Contributed by Lucas Fortini: (lfortini@usgs.gov). Contact for more info. Avian malaria poses the threat of extinction to multiple unique Hawaiian forest bird species. With mosquito vector control as one of …