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Drought Task Force I Assessment Report: An Interpretation of the Origins of the 2012 Central Great Plains Drought

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Marty Hoerling (NOAA); Siegfried Schubert (NASA); Kingtse Mo (NOAA)
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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).

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Cover page of the report, An Interpretation of the Origins of the 2012 Central Great Plains Drought
DEWS Region(s)
Midwest
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Southern Plains