Before you invest, plant, build or insure, it pays to know how the climate of the place behaves: which months bring rain, how much it changes from one year to the next and what happened in El Niño years. We deliver it once, in a report, in about two weeks.
What you receive
You choose the modules you need; the study is built from the ones you tick.
- The climate of the site. The average of each month over about 30 years, how much it varies from year to year and which months run short or in excess, for the variables that matter to your work: rainfall, temperatures, humidity, sunshine hours, solar radiation, cloud cover or wind.
- El Niño and La Niña years. How the site's climate changed in each past El Niño and each past La Niña, separately.
- Extreme rainfall. The one-day, three-day and five-day rainfall expected to be exceeded, on average, once every 2, 5, 10 and 25 years, always with its uncertainty margin. On the coast we also give El Niño years separately, because strong El Niño events dominate the rainfall maxima.
- Site comparison. Your site against others, or against areas where the crop or the project already works, with the same data and the same method.
- Daily series. The data day by day in Excel, for your own engineering or hydrology studies.
Which decisions it serves
| If you are about to… | What helps most |
|---|---|
| Buy land or choose where to plant | The climate of the site and the comparison with areas that already produce |
| Design a drain, a reservoir or a structure | Extreme rainfall and the daily series |
| Assess or price an insurance policy | The site's history, year by year, with El Niño years |
| Plan a solar plant or a company's season | Sunshine hours, solar radiation and the dry and wet months |
| Choose the date of an outdoor event | The months and weeks with the least rain at that place |
How we do it
We combine three sources: the world reference reconstruction of past climate, satellite estimates and the nearest stations. We compare them with each other and with what was observed in the area, and we tell you how far to trust each number.
We estimate extreme rainfall with several stations of the region at once, because a single series is usually short and has gaps. For the same reason we stop at 25 years: beyond that, the number would no longer be backed by the data.
Delivery and price
- Lead time: about two weeks from when we have the exact location of the site.
- Format: a report with figures and plain explanations, and the data in Excel.
- One-off: the study is delivered and paid once, with no subscription.
- Price: from USD 500 per site, plus VAT. It depends on the variables, the years analysed and the number of sites: the second and third cost less. Extreme rainfall from USD 700 per site, plus VAT.
Which site do you want to know?
Tell us where it is, what decision lies ahead and which variables matter to you. We send you a proposal with the scope, the lead time and the price.
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