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Upper Missouri River Basin Soil Moisture and Snowpack Dashboard

The Upper Missouri River Basin Soil Moisture and Snowpack Dashboard displays interactive maps of station-based soil moisture and snowpack data from the five state mesonets in the Upper Missouri River Basin (UMRB)—Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

Data Coverage
Regional
Period of Record
2023–Present
File Format
images
Data Type
Land-based Station

USGS WaterWatch Streamflow Data

WaterWatch is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) World Wide Web site that displays maps, graphs, and tables describing real-time, recent, and past streamflow conditions for the United States.

Data Coverage
Puerto Rico
United States
Period of Record
2004 - Present
File Format
images
csv
shapefile
xml
kml
Data Type
Land-based Station

Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI)

VegDRI: a weekly depiction of vegetation stress across the contiguous United States.

Data Coverage
Contiguous U.S.
Period of Record
2009 - Present
File Format
images
pdf
Data Type
Satellite

Visual Drought Atlas

The Visual Drought Atlas is a way to compare the appearance of different landscapes over time, in dry, wet and normal years through images.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
2010 - Present
File Format
images