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Research Dataset: Quantifying the Importance of Selected Drought Indicators for the U.S. Drought Monitor by Region and Season

A team of scientists at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center conducted research to quantify the relative importance—or “drought explainability”—of specific indicators with respect to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Data Coverage
Contiguous U.S.
Period of Record
2006-2019
File Format
csv
netcdf-4

Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN)

The Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) provides soil and climate data to support natural resource assessments and conservation activities, focusing on agricultural areas of the U.S.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
1991 - Present
File Format
csv
other
Data Type
Land-based Station

Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)

The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission is an orbiting observatory that measures the amount of water in the top 5 cm of soil everywhere on the Earth’s surface every 3 days.

Data Coverage
Global
Period of Record
2015 - present
File Format
other
Data Type
Satellite

Surface Hydrology Maps

Weekly and monthly hydrological data from the North-American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS).

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
Current Conditions
File Format
images
geotiff
Data Type
Model