UN Project Climate Smart—A Global Agricultural Weather Observation Program

An overview of how the United Nations project Climate Smart, an initiative to expand surface weather and soil observations on farms in rural areas that are not well observed today, is progressing. The overview includes a description of the project, its sponsors from the private and public sectors, and plans to deploy thousands of weather stations in 2019. Also included is an overview of the 6,000 station DTN-Ag North American Weather Network (all built since 2013 and privately funded and operated), along with the types of stations and parameters observed. The use of local weather observations in precision agriculture applications is explained, along with their value to the farmers and producers who have installed the stations.