- Oct 21Drought monitoring and prediction activities are back to normal.
- Sep 20Data feed problem is causing the delay in drought monitoring. Please check back later.
- May 9The drought forecast verification page is added.
News Update
Drought Conditions On 20080828
Also available in google earth
The drought analysis is based on comparing the current soil moisture against the 54-yr retrospective climatology. The climatology is developed separately for each grid cell (> 55,000 cells in the USA) in the form of a pdf. The original drought analysis (Sheffield et al. 2004) fitted beta distributions to the soil moisture data. In this update we use empirical distributions based directly on the data. The plots shows the percentile of current soil moisture with respect to the 54-yr climatology defined as all values in a 49-day sampling window centered at 20080828.
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We are now able to deliver our drought monitoring information using the google earth platform. The KML file for google earth can be found here