2018 marked the first year of collaboration between the Network for Environment and Weather Applications (NEWA), which is part of the New York State IPM Program at Cornell University, and University at Albany’s New York State Mesonet (NYSM). In March, ten data streams (table 1, figure 1) were established to link NYSM-generated weather data to the NEWA online agricultural decision support system, available for use by agricultural stakeholders across New York State. 2018 was successful, as demonstrated by metrics provided in table 2. 2019 is sure to attract more users to these locations on NEWA as awareness grows of their availability.
The successful collaboration between NEWA and NYS Mesonet was also featured as a showcase in the New York State IPM Program 2017-18 Annual Report. The report can be downloaded from this Cornell eCommons permalink:
NYSIPM 2017-18 Annual Report: https://hdl.handle.net/1813/60613
Table 1. NYS Mesonet weather stations streaming data to NEWA in 2018.
Figure 1. NYS Mesonet station linked to the NEWA platform.
New York State Mesonet Agricultural Impact
Table 2. Summarized impact metrics, across all linked NYSM locations, that originated from IP addresses within New York between March 1 2018 and December 31 2018.
| Impact metric | Total |
|---|---|
| Unique users | 190 |
| Unique sessions | 465 |
| Unique pageviews | 3524 |
| Sessions per user (average) | 2.4 |
| Pageviews per user (average) | 18.5 |
| Contact hours | 59h 29m |
| Contact minutes per user (ave) | 19m |
| Contact minutes per session (ave) | 8m |