Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook Alaska September 2015. Climate, Drought, Impacts.
Typical El Niño winter weather pattern, temperature and precipitation outlooks, potential impacts, past El Niños.
NIDIS' California Drought Early Warning System held drought outlook meeting on July 7 at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. Attendees include researchers as well as public and private sector partners, who offered demonstrations and feedback on new tools. Meeting summary and next steps report.
Two-pager for the NIDIS Southern California meeting, July 7, 2015 in LaJolla, California.
How different El Niños have affected California at different times, and their relative strengths. A strong El Niño can result in a continuing drought year like water year 1992, an average year like 1973, or a wet year like 1983, so there is not a certain cause and effect relationship between precipitation and El Niño.
Synopsis of Ohio River Basin Climate Change Pilot Study Report.
Report from first-ever meeting of state drought coordinators, emergency managers and state climatologists from across the West on July 21-22, 2015, to discuss emerging best practices in forecasting, planning for and responding to drought, and recent lessons learned. Held in Seattle, WA, hosted by NOAA, NIDIS, National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) and the Western Governors’ Association (WGA). Representatives from 16 of the 19 states within WGA attended (AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, KS, MT, NB, NV, NM, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY).
Summary of needs from the NOAA NIDIS Drought Forum on May 16, 2014 in Sacramento, CA. Summary is broken out by theme.
This basin master water control manual describes the overall water control plan for the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT) River Basin. Descriptions of the basin, history of development, water control activities, and coordination with others are provided as supplemental information to enhance the knowledge and understanding of the basin water control plan. This manual provides a general reference source for ACT water control regulation. It is intended for use in day-to-day, real-time water management decision making and for training new personnel.
After soliciting feedback from more than 100 stakeholders and employees, NOAA released a service assessment on May 11, 2015, that identifies tactics and strategies the agency can take to better provide California decision makers with the scientific data and tools they need to lessen the impacts of extreme drought.