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Coastal Salinity Index (CSI)

The CSI is a drought index tool that uses salinity data to characterize saline (drought) and freshwater (wet) conditions in coastal surface waters.

Data Coverage
Regional
United States
Period of Record
Current conditions
File Format
images
csv
Data Type
Land-based Station

CPC Temperature and Precipitation Outlooks

The Climate Prediction Center (CPC) produces temperature and precipitation outlooks for the U.S., including 6-10 day, 8-14 day, monthly, and seasonal outlooks.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
1991–2020
File Format
images
shapefile
kml

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

Groundwater and Soil Moisture Conditions from GRACE Data Assimilation

Groundwater and soil moisture drought indicators based on terrestrial water storage observations derived from GRACE satellite data and integrated with other observations, produced each week by NASA

Period of Record
2003 - Present
File Format
images
pdf
xml
other
Data Type
Satellite