How forecasters put together their predictions.
A presentation given by Charlie DuCharme, Senior Hydrologist, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, at the Midwest Climate Outlook and Drought Early Warning System Kickoff Meeting that took place February 9-11, 2016 in St. Louis, Missouri. Discusses components of Missouri’s drought plan and shows pages from the drought plan itself.
Overview of Federal interagency collaboration on drought.
A presentation given by Jim Angel, Illinois State Climatologist, at the Midwest Climate Outlook and Drought Early Warning System Kickoff Meeting that took place February 9-11, 2016 in St. Louis, Missouri. Talks about how cycles of flood and drought are both occurring with greater frequency than in the past.
A presentation given by Gwen White, Science Coordinator, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, USFWS, at the Midwest Climate Outlook and Drought Early Warning System Kickoff Meeting that took place February 9-11, 2016 in St. Louis, Missouri. Short presentation showing the relationship between drought and wildlife.
Conditions contributing to flooding in Missouri in 2015, including precipitation data. By Todd Sampsell, Deputy Director, Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
A presentation given by Christopher Hain, Assistant Research Scientist, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, at the Midwest Climate Outlook and Drought Early Warning System Kickoff Meeting that took place February 9-11, 2016 in St. Louis, Missouri. Discusses some of the different data sets that are important in monitoring for agricultural drought.
Drought trigger tool, precipitation maps, drought indices for Midwest and nation.
A presentation given by Roger S. Pulwarty of NOAA/NIDIS at the Midwest Climate Outlook and Drought Early Warning System Kickoff Meeting that took place February 9-11, 2016 in St. Louis, Missouri. Presentation touches on NIDIS’s mission, partnerships, issues facing this kind of work and provides visual and quantitative evidence to show that drought has become and increasingly prevalent occurrence in the United States.
Using observation networks, rainfall anomalies, soil moisture data to provide early warning of drought.