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Utilization of High-Resolution Drought Monitoring Products
Project Status
Ongoing
With funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the project team is working to improve the radar-based Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and SPI blends that they developed and that are presently being produced by the North Carolina Climate Office. The project's goals are to reduce long-term biases and to test the utility of these bias-corrected precipitation amounts for ingestion into land surface models.
General Location
Region
Regions
Southern Plains
Key Partners
Office of the Texas State Climatologist
NASA
NOAA
Sectors
Agriculture
DEWS Components
Observation & Monitoring
Prediction & Forecasting