New App: rice production

import from:

rice.txt

(points to original_data_files/rice.txt)

Wheat and rice production values for the globe at 5 arc minute resolution. The data are in units of production (irrigated + non-irrigated) in thousand tonnes.

The file then extracts the wheat/rice production value at the location of each TOAR ozone monitoring site.

The data were downloaded from the GAEZ data portal ( http://gaez.fao.org/Main.html# ) and then output to ascii text format by:
Dr Katrina Sharps
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, UK
Tel. + 44 (0)1248 374518 (direct)
Tel. + 44 (0)1248 374500 (reception)
E-mail: katshar@ceh.ac.uk

The ASCII output are in the following format:
columns: 4320
rows: 2160
x lower-left corner: -180
y lower-left corner: -90
cell size: 0.08333 degrees (9.25 km in latitude)
missing data: -9999

Scripts:
extract_rice.py - same procedure as for population density and others