The AgAdapt database brings together US county-level agricultural, economic, cultural, and biophysical variables from a variety of public sources, to support research on the adaptation of agricultural systems to climate change. The database is periodically updated as new data are released. This repository contains the combined dataset, as well as the code use to generate it by merging data from the original sources.
The compiled data are stored as four CSV files with different tabular formats:
- A metadata file documenting the names, units, and descriptions for the variables covered in the other files.
- Time series data. This includes data from the NASS Ag Census and the American Community Survey, for 2012 and 2017.
- Static data. This comprises values that don't change over time, including data on soil properities and land grant universities.
- Climate data. There are several hundred climate data points per county, derived from daily climate data, representing different variables, statistics, and time periods.
A more detailed but still incomplete description of methods currently lives here.