Drought Early Warning and Information Tools

Drought Early Warning and Information Tools

KT Ingram

Presented toSoutheast-ACF Drought Early Warning Information System

Development Workshop: Apalachicola River & Bay NIDIS Pilot 

27-28 April 2010, Apalachicola, FL

The many faces of drought

• Climatological – SPI deviation from normal• Hydrological – Streamflow, groundwater depth

o Local vs indirect• Agricultural – reduced growth, yield, quality

o Rainfed vs irrigatedo Duration, intensity, and timing

• Drought and heat

Outline• US Drought Portal

o NIDISo National drought monitor

• River Forecast Center• US Geological Survey• State Climate Offices

o LGMI high resolution monitoring• Southeast Climate Consortium

o KBDI forecasto LGMI monitoring and forecasto ARID monitoring

Drought.gov

Interactive map viewer – Current DM

http://www.drought.gov/portal/server.pt/community/drought_gov/map_viewer

Interactive map viewer -- Outlook

http://www.drought.gov/portal/server.pt/community/drought_gov/map_viewer

SE River Forecast Center:Current

conditions

www.srh.noaa.gov.serfc

SE River Forecast Center

Precipitation forecast

waterwatch.usgs.gov

USGA Ground water

monitoring

Alabama Office of the State Climatologist

LGMI is updated daily, based on Doppler radar precipitation estimates to give a 4 km × 4 km resolution

http://nsstc.uah.edu/aosc/lawn_garden_se.html

AgroClimate.orgAgroClimate is a web-based decision support system, which was developed by the SECC and is now hosted by Florida Cooperative Extension

When SECC drought tools have been tested and evaluated by users, they are added to AgroClimate

Wildfire threat forecast

http://agroclimate.org/forestry/wildfire/wildfire.php

http://elnino.agen.ufl.edu/forecasts/LGMI/map/

LGMI: monitor and forecast

Agricultural Reference Index for Drought – ARIDAn experimental product

ARID Monitor – forecast to be added

Please visit us at:

• AgroClimate.org• SEClimate.org• Open.AgroClimate.org