GIDMaPS: A Drought Time Machine BY Farshad Momtaz
A drought time machine Team members What is drought? Why does drought matter? What does GIDMaPS do? How does GIDMaPS work? A look into the future Sponsors More information
Team members Assistant Professor Amir AghaKouchak, PhD Shahrbanou Madadgar, PhD Z. Hao, PhD Ali Mehran, PhD Candidate Alireza Farahmand, PhD Student Omid Mazdiyasni, PhD Student
What is drought? Drought: Deficiency in Water Supply Meteorological Precipitation Agricultural Soil Moisture
Why does drought matter? Loss of crop yields and livestock Increase in global food prices Famine and loss of life Climate extreme with largest affect on population Economic damage of $6 - $8 Billion/Year
How to solve this problem?! US Drought Monitoring System Drought Monitor for only the United States Human input and precipitation GIDMaPS
GIDMaps Global Integrated Drought Monitoring and Prediction System Drought Prediction The only drought prediction system currently available Current conditions and long term climatological data to predict future droughts
How does it work? Multivariate Standardized Drought Index Data Scan (NASA Satellites) NASA Servers GIDMaPS Servers Drought and Prediction algorithm Maps! Multivariate Standardized Drought Index Standardized Precipitation Index Standardized Soil Moisture Index
outcome Exceptional Wetness Extreme drought
Gidmaps Web A picture of a product is worth more than a thousand words!!
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Future of drought GIDMaPS can help fight drought Drought Monitoring Drought Prediction Faster data availability More accurate predictions
More information Momtaz F., Nakhjiri N., AghaKouchak A., 2014, Toward a Drought Cyberinfrastructure System, Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 95(22), 182-183, doi:10.1002/2014EO220002. Hao Z., AghaKouchak A., Nakhjiri N., Farahmand A., 2014, Global Integrated Drought Monitoring and Prediction System, Scientific Data, 1:140001, 1-10, doi: 10.1038/sdata.2014.1. Hao Z., AghaKouchak A., 2014, A Nonparametric Multivariate Multi-Index Drought Monitoring Framework, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15, 89-101, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-12- 0160.1. Hao Z., AghaKouchak A., 2013a, Multivariate Standardized Drought Index: A Parametric Multi-Index Model, Advances in Water Resources, 57, 12-18, doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2013.03.009. AghaKouchak A., and Nakhjiri N., 2012, A Near Real-Time Satellite-Based Global Drought Climate Data Record, Environmental Research Letters, 7(4), 044037, doi:10.1088/1748- 9326/7/4/044037.
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