Workshop agenda for the Climate, Drought and Early Warning workshop held in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming on June 8-9, 2010.
The National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) convened a workshop in Grand Teton National Park, June 9-11, 2009, to initiate a long‐term commitment to providing tribes with the drought information and resources needed to better monitor and respond to inter‐annual drought conditions and long‐term climate changes. These efforts by NIDIS are grounded in the commitment to help facilitate and establish long‐term partnerships between tribal constituents and federal agencies, universities, and other entities in order to meet the federal trust responsibility.
Agenda for NIDIS Knowledge Assessment Workshop – Contributions of Satellite Remote Sensing to Drought Monitoring
Recognition of drought risks in a timely manner is dependent on our ability to monitor and forecast the diverse physical indicators of climatological drought, as well as relevant economic, social, and environmental impacts. The Western Governors’ Association Report (2004) “Creating a Drought Early Warning System for the 21st Century: The National Integrated Drought Information System” made clear that recent and ongoing droughts expose the critical need for a coordinated, integrated drought monitoring, forecasting, and early warning information system.
This report is a foundational document for the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) from the Western Governors' Association (WGA). From the executive summary:
This National Drought Mitigation Center paper outlines 10 key steps for effective drought planning.
Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Midwest Region, June 2014.
Dry Times Volume 2 Issue 2
Prior to becoming a bi-weekly email newsletter, “Dry Times,” the NIDIS newsletter, appeared twice a year in the spring and fall.
The Midwest region regularly experiences precipitation extremes, both flood and drought. However, these extremes and their corresponding impacts are typically studied and communicated independently, without consideration of the compound impacts due to a rapid transition from one extreme to the other (this study will refer to this type of event as a rapid transition in extremes, or RTE).
NOAA’s National Water Model (NWM) predicts hydrologic information relevant to drought monitoring and forecasts at very high resolutions. Research is exploring how to use state-of-the-art NWM short-term forecasts of current hydrologic conditions as a proxy to monitor drought conditions. An experimental soil moisture drought monitoring capability is now being prototyped based on hourly, best available, quality-controlled NWM output.