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March 17, 2015
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Overview of  NIDIS program.

Presented at the Building Drought Early Warning Capacity Workshop in Bozeman, Montana March 17-18, 2015.

This tool, available as part of The Climate Toolbox, provides maps and summary tables of different drought types, such as agricultural and meteorological drought, for a location in the contiguous United States and enables easy comparison to a display of the current map of the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Condition Monitoring Observer Reports on Drought (CMOR-Drought) is a tool that allows citizen scientists to submit observation reports relating to drought, which are presented in a map that can be used to view and access submitted information and attachments.

The Visual Drought Atlas is a way to compare the appearance of different landscapes over time, in dry, wet and normal years through images.

NWS WPC produces Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts (QPFs) that depict the amount of liquid precipitation expected to fall in a defined period of time. In the case of snow or ice, QPF represents the amount of liquid that will be measured when the precipitation is melted.

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September 1, 2015
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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlooks Missouri River Basin September 2015.  Climate, Drought, Impacts.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture produces weekly maps and charts displaying locations and percentages of drought-affected areas corn, soybeans, hay, cattle, and winter wheat. 

Reports and data on streamflow, forecasts, reservoir storage and other hydrologic information for the Western United States.

NWS provides a wide selection of forecast maps for temperature and precipitation for the next 12 hours to 6 days.

Point maps and interactive maps of snow water equivalent, snow depth, and snow density from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL).

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