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Summer 2023 in Review: A Look Back at Drought Across the U.S. in 10 Maps
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When winter began, drought and dryness covered almost all of the Great Plains and West, and the snowfall in winter 2020-2021 didn’t do much to help conditions in the Western U.S. Explore drought conditions across the U.S. this winter in a series of 8 maps.

Gridded Climate Datasets: Applied Climate Information System (ACIS) NRCC Interpolated (Grid 1)

ACIS NRCC Interpolated (Grid 1) is a gridded dataset that includes area averages of daily maximum, minimum, and average temperatures and daily precipitation amounts for the contiguous United States from January 1, 1950 to the present.

Data Coverage
Contiguous U.S.
Period of Record
1950 – Present
File Format
text (ascii)
geotiff
Data Type
Land-based Station
2023 Western Drought Webinar: May 9, 2023
Images of drought across the western United States.
Event Date
May 9, 2023

NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), in partnership with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center, hosted the 2023 Western Drought Webinar on May 9 to provide the latest information on current drought conditions and outlooks. Speakers from the U.S.

NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) - IMERG

NASA GPM-IMERG: The Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) algorithm combines information from the GPM satellite constellation to estimate precipitation over the majority of the Earth's surface.  

Data Coverage
Global
Period of Record
2000 - Present
File Format
geotiff
netcdf-4
Data Type
Land-based Station
Satellite

ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5)

ERA5 is the fifth generation ECMWF atmospheric reanalysis of the global climate covering the period from January 1940 to present. ERA5 is produced by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) at ECMWF.

Data Coverage
Global
Period of Record
1940 - Present
File Format
geotiff
netcdf-4
Data Type
Land-based Station
Model

Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor System (MRMS)

The Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor System combines data streams from multiple radars, satellites, surface observations, upper air observations, lightning reports, rain gauges, and numerical weather prediction models to produce a suite of decision-support products every two minutes.

Data Coverage
Puerto Rico
United States
USVI/USAPI
Data Type
Blended Products
Land-based Station
Model
Radar
Satellite

Day 8-14 U.S. Hazards Outlook with Rapid Onset Drought

The Climate Prediction Center's Day 8–14 (Week 2) U.S. Hazards Outlook shows potential hazardous conditions related to temperature, precipitation, wind, snow, and rapid onset drought.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
Outlook
File Format
images
shapefile
kml
Data Type
Model

U.S. Gridded Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) from nClimGrid-Daily

The US Gridded Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is derived from the nClimGrid-Daily dataset and and includes timescales of 1, 2, and 3 weeks, as well as 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, and 12 months.

Data Coverage
Contiguous U.S.
Period of Record
1951 – Present
File Format
text (ascii)
csv
netcdf-4
Data Type
Land-based Station

Gridded Climate Datasets: NOAA's nClimGrid - Daily

nClimGrid-Daily is a gridded dataset that includes area averages of daily maximum, minimum, and average temperatures and daily precipitation amounts for the contiguous United States from January 1, 1951 to the present.

Data Coverage
Contiguous U.S.
Period of Record
1951 – Present
File Format
text (ascii)
csv
netcdf-4
Data Type
Land-based Station
NOAA Three-Minute Thesis Webinar on Drought
Event Date
September 9, 2022
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
EDT
Location
Virtual

The NOAA Regional Collaboration Network hosted a special webinar on September 9 designed to share experiences and information about NOAA’s role related to drought. From learning about the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), to understanding flash drought, or how drought relates to salmon recovery—attendees heard straight from the experts on a wide array of drought-related topics! In addition, presenters addressed questions from the audience.

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