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Drought Termination and Amelioration

NCEI provides precipitation data that can be used to show probability or the amount of precipitation to ameliorate or end a drought at different monthly scales.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
Current Conditions, Forecasts
File Format
images
text (ascii)
csv
json
xml
Data Type
Model

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI)

The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) is an experimental tool that examines how anomalous the atmospheric evaporative demand (E0; also known as "the thirst of the atmosphere") is for a given

Data Coverage
Contiguous U.S.
Period of Record
1980 - Present
File Format
images
text (ascii)
Data Type
Model

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) Seasonal Projections

This tool shows one-month projections for EDDI, which is an early warning guidance tool that is available for monitoring.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
Forecasts
File Format
netcdf-4

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) Subseasonal Forecasts

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) subseasonal forecasts are available from the CFS-gridMET dataset at 4-km gridded resolution over the contiguous U.S.

Data Coverage
Contiguous U.S.
Period of Record
Forecasts
File Format
pdf
text (ascii)
geotiff
netcdf-4
Data Type
Model