{"id":321,"date":"2019-10-21T16:08:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T16:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/?p=321"},"modified":"2019-10-29T19:07:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:07:04","slug":"monitoring-inversions-for-chemical-drift-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/monitoring-inversions-for-chemical-drift-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring Inversions for Chemical Drift Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Boundary layer inversions (when the temperature increases with height) have been found to be conducive to chemical drifts off target that could damage unintended vegetation.&nbsp; Unfortunately, monitoring for these inversions is rare and can be highly dependent on microclimate environments (e.g., low-lying valleys).&nbsp; Across the Midwest and Central Plains regions, several state mesonets (networks of weather stations) have started monitoring for inversions.&nbsp; However, there is no region-wide resources that links these data across states and presents the data from a climatological perspective.&nbsp; The US Department of Agriculture, through partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatehubs.usda.gov\/hubs\/midwest\">USDA Midwest Climate Hub<\/a>, has provided funding for the Indiana State Climate Office to develop hourly climatologies of boundary-layer inversions and region-wide online monitoring tools.&nbsp; With increased understanding of the development, timing, and persistence of these inversions, chemical applications could be utilized with reduced risk to off-target damage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boundary layer inversions (when the temperature increases with height) have been found to be conducive to chemical drifts off target that could damage unintended vegetation.&nbsp; Unfortunately, monitoring for these inversions is rare and can be highly dependent on microclimate environments (e.g., low-lying valleys).&nbsp; Across the Midwest and Central Plains regions, several state mesonets (networks of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/indiana-state-climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}