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World Food Aid Needs and Availabilities

Entry ID: USDA0508

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Summary

Abstract: "World Food Aid Needs and Availabilities" is a full-text report
that is a study of world food aid needs, defined as amount of
grain needed to fill the gap between what a country can produce
plus its financial capacity to import commercially, and a
targeted consumption level including emergency needs. Factors
considered include supply and demand, prices and trade, food
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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 90.0

S: -90.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1960-01-01

Location Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL

Science Keywords

AGRICULTURE > AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS > FERTILIZERS

AGRICULTURE > AGRICULTURAL PLANT SCIENCE > IRRIGATION

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Platform

RADIOSONDES

GROUND STATIONS

Instrument

RADIOSONDES

Use Constraints CITE AS: Angell, J.K. 2009. Global, hemispheric, and zonal temperature deviations derived from radiosonde records. In Trends Online: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. doi: 10.3334/CDIAC/cli.005

Ancillary Keywords

Climate Diagnostics

Data Center

Air Resources Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

Data Center URL: http://www.arl.noaa.gov/

Data Center Personnel
Name: NOAA AIR RESOURCES LABORATORY Email: arl.webmaster at noaa.gov Contact Address: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Air Resources Laboratory SSMC-3 1315 East West Highway City: SILVER SPRING Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20910 Country: USA

Publications/References

Angell, J.K. 2009. Effect of exclusion of anomalous tropical stations on temperature trends from a 63-Station radiosonde network, and comparison with other analyses. Journal of Climate 16:2288-2295, doi: 10.1175/2763.1.

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2010-12-16

Last DIF Revision Date: 2010-12-30

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