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Environment

Environmental Intelligence (GDD, Heat & Drought)

Pull real historical weather and compute crop-relevant agroclimatic indicators.

How it works

We pull historical daily weather from the Open-Meteo archive for any field location and compute Growing Degree Days (GDD) using the standard base temperature for your crop, plus heat-stress days, dry days, and precipitation totals. These indicators turn a year-long weather record into a small set of decision-grade numbers you can correlate with yield.

Formula

GDD = max(0, (T_max + T_min)/2 − T_base). Heat-stress day: T_max > threshold. Dry day: precipitation < threshold.

What you get

  • Cumulative GDD time series for the growing season
  • Heat-stress and dry-day counts per month
  • Total precipitation and extreme-event days

When to use it

  • You're zoning trial locations by climate match
  • You're correlating yield outcomes with weather
  • You're stress-testing varieties against historical extremes

References

Run Environment on your data

Open the module and upload a CSV.

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