Please note: Due to scheduled maintenance impacting NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information from February 4–6, some Drought.gov maps and statistics may be delayed. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Drought Task Force I Assessment Report: An Interpretation of the Origins of the 2012 Central Great Plains Drought
This report describes the morphology of the 2012 summer U.S. Central Great Plains drought, placing the event into a historical context, and providing a diagnosis of its proximate and underlying causes.
This work was performed as part of the NOAA Drought Task Force I organized by the NOAA Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections Program (MAPP) in partnership with the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS).
