Drought Early Warning and Information Tools KT Ingram Presented to Southeast-ACF Drought Early Warning Information System Development Workshop: Apalachicola River & Bay NIDIS Pilot April 2010, Apalachicola, FL
The many faces of drought Climatological – SPI deviation from normal Hydrological – Streamflow, groundwater depth o Local vs indirect Agricultural – reduced growth, yield, quality o Rainfed vs irrigated o Duration, intensity, and timing Drought and heat
Outline US Drought Portal o NIDIS o National drought monitor River Forecast Center US Geological Survey State Climate Offices o LGMI high resolution monitoring Southeast Climate Consortium o KBDI forecast o LGMI monitoring and forecast o ARID monitoring
Drought.gov
Interactive map viewer – Current DM
Interactive map viewer -- Outlook
SE River Forecast Center: Current conditions
SE River Forecast Center Precipitation forecast
waterwatch.usgs.gov
USGA Ground water monitoring
Alabama Office of the State Climatologist LGMI is updated daily, based on Doppler radar precipitation estimates to give a 4 km × 4 km resolution
AgroClimate.org AgroClimate is a web-based decision support system, which was developed by the SECC and is now hosted by Florida Cooperative Extension When SECC drought tools have been tested and evaluated by users, they are added to AgroClimate
Wildfire threat forecast
LGMI: monitor and forecast
Agricultural Reference Index for Drought – ARID An experimental product
ARID Monitor – forecast to be added
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