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Droughtscape- Fall 2011, Kelly Smith
Droughtscape- Fall 2011, Kelly Smith
Droughtscape, Quarterly Newsletter of NDMC, 2007-
Drought Preparedness Community Options
Drought Likely to Persist, Intensify Across South
Database Will Help Planners Find Options
Impacts: Ag Losses, Fire, Water Restrictions
NDMC Welcomes International Visitors
New Drought Impact Reporter Online
Sim-Drought, Available Now at Select Agencies
Droughtscape- Summer 2011, Kelly Smith
Droughtscape- Summer 2011, Kelly Smith
Droughtscape, Quarterly Newsletter of NDMC, 2007-
New NDMC Website
Drought May Improve in Southeast and Southwest
Impacts Summary: Fire, Crop Loss and More
International Activities
NDMC Launches Ranch Planning Tool
Serving Data to Order
Workshop Builds Drought Planning Community
Identifying Changes In Climatic Trends And The Fingerprints Of Landuse And Landcover Changes In The High Plains Of The Usa, Denis Mutiibwa
Identifying Changes In Climatic Trends And The Fingerprints Of Landuse And Landcover Changes In The High Plains Of The Usa, Denis Mutiibwa
Department of Biological Systems Engineering: Dissertations and Theses
Human activities such as conversion of natural ecosystem to croplands and urban-centers, deforestation and afforestation impact biophysical properties of land surface such as albedo, energy balance, and surface roughness. Alterations in these properties affect the heat and moisture exchanges between the land surface and atmospheric boundary layer. The objectives of this research were; (i) to quantitatively identify the High plains’ regional climate change in temperatures over the period 1895 to 2006, (ii) detect the signatures of anthropogenic forcing of LULC changes on the regional climate change of the High Plains, and (iii) examine the trends in evolving regional latent heat …
Building An Enhanced Drought Early Warning System (Dews): Tools And Services For Decision Support, Mark Svoboda
Building An Enhanced Drought Early Warning System (Dews): Tools And Services For Decision Support, Mark Svoboda
Drought Mitigation Center: Faculty Publications
Outline
- About the NDMC
- Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) Overview
- Tools (USDM, DIR, Atlas, VegDRI, + EPC/DRC)
- NDMC and the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)
- Toward a Global Drought Early Warning System (NIDIS)
- Toward a Global Drought Early Warning System (GDEWS)
- Summary
- Q&A
Droughts In The 21st Century And Beyond, Vijay P. Singh, Chris Funk, Jim Angel, Mark Svoboda
Droughts In The 21st Century And Beyond, Vijay P. Singh, Chris Funk, Jim Angel, Mark Svoboda
Drought Mitigation Center: Faculty Publications
Drought: Science
- Characterization
- Mechanisms
- Modelings
- Prediction and Forecasting
Drought Monitoring
- Measurement
- Mapping
- Space
- Time
- Data Sharing
- Updating
Drought-Ready Communities: A Guide To Community Drought Preparedness, Mark D. Svoboda, Kelly Smith, Melissa Widhalm, Donna Louise Woudenberg, Cody L. Knutson, Meghan Sittler, Jim Angel, Mike Spinar, Mark Shafer, Renee Mcpherson, Heather Lazrus
Drought-Ready Communities: A Guide To Community Drought Preparedness, Mark D. Svoboda, Kelly Smith, Melissa Widhalm, Donna Louise Woudenberg, Cody L. Knutson, Meghan Sittler, Jim Angel, Mike Spinar, Mark Shafer, Renee Mcpherson, Heather Lazrus
National Drought Mitigation Center: Publications
Table of Contents
Introduction to Drought-Ready Communities........................................................ 4
Section 1. Getting Started: Invite the Community to Participate, Commit to the Process...................... 7
1.1 Establish a leadership team that includes individuals with responsibility for monitoring, communication, and implementation .............................................. 7
1.2 Identify stakeholders or groups in the community that may need additional resources to participate in the Drought-Ready Communities process .................... 8
1.3 Include government agencies and regulators ....................................... 9
1.4 Develop a contact list ................................................................ 9
1.5 Gather community perceptions of drought .................................................. 10
Section 2. Information Gathering: Understand Water Sources and Uses, Develop a Drought History . 11
2.1 …
Evaluation Of Drought Indices Based On Thermal Remote Sensing Of Evapotranspiration Over The Continental United States, Martha C. Anderson, Christopher R. Hain, Brian Wardlow, Agustin Pimstein, John R. Mecikalski, William P. Kustas
Evaluation Of Drought Indices Based On Thermal Remote Sensing Of Evapotranspiration Over The Continental United States, Martha C. Anderson, Christopher R. Hain, Brian Wardlow, Agustin Pimstein, John R. Mecikalski, William P. Kustas
Drought Mitigation Center: Faculty Publications
The reliability of standard meteorological drought indices based on measurements of precipitation is limited by the spatial distribution and quality of currently available rainfall data. Furthermore, they reflect only one component of the surface hydrologic cycle, and they cannot readily capture nonprecipitation-based moisture inputs to the land surface system (e.g., irrigation) that may temper drought impacts or variable rates of water consumption across a landscape. This study assesses the value of a new drought index based on remote sensing of evapotranspiration (ET). The evaporative stress index (ESI) quantifies anomalies in the ratio of actual to potential ET (PET), mapped using …
Droughtscape- Spring 2011, Kelly Smith
Droughtscape- Spring 2011, Kelly Smith
Droughtscape, Quarterly Newsletter of NDMC, 2007-
Register Now
Forecasters Say Dryness in TX and SW to Continue
Drought Planning, The Game: Coming Soon
Ding Takes New Post
South and Southwest Lose Crops, Fight Fires
Drought Monitor Authors Review Enhanced GIS Tools and New Processes
The Global Drought Monitor Portal, Michael J. Brewer, Richard R. Heim Jr.
The Global Drought Monitor Portal, Michael J. Brewer, Richard R. Heim Jr.
Drought Mitigation Center: Faculty Publications
Drought monitoring, assessment, response, mitigation, adaptation, and early warning systems have been created in a number of countries around the world, and some regional and continental efforts have been successful. However, the creation of a Global Drought Early Warning System (GDEWS) remains elusive. A GDEWS incorporates forecasting and research improvements, in addition to monitoring, impact, planning, mitigation and adaptation and recovery information. At a series of workshops in 2010, the U.S. National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) agreed to take the first step toward a GDEWS, the formation of a Global Drought Monitoring Portal (GDMP). This effort currently covers three …
Farmer Perceptions Of Sustainable Agriculture Practices And Drought Risk Reduction In Nebraska, Usa, Cody L. Knutson, Tonya Haigh, Michael J. Hayes, Melissa Widhalm, J. Nothwehr, M. Kleinschmidt, L. Graf
Farmer Perceptions Of Sustainable Agriculture Practices And Drought Risk Reduction In Nebraska, Usa, Cody L. Knutson, Tonya Haigh, Michael J. Hayes, Melissa Widhalm, J. Nothwehr, M. Kleinschmidt, L. Graf
Drought Mitigation Center: Faculty Publications
Social factors, such as farming methods, have an impact on farm vulnerability to drought, but have received little research or policy attention. Some researchers and advocates have argued that sustainable agriculture systems are less vulnerable to climate risk than conventional systems because sustainable agriculture requires producers to have skills promoting adaptability. In this paper, we investigate producers’ perceptions on the use of sustainable agriculture in reducing drought risk, and what they believe would help them better adapt to drought. We surveyed and interviewed farmer members of two sustainable agriculture organizations in Nebraska, USA, during a multi-year drought period from 1999 …
Droughtscape- Winter 2011, Kelly Smith
Droughtscape- Winter 2011, Kelly Smith
Droughtscape, Quarterly Newsletter of NDMC, 2007-
Register for the U.S. Drought Monitor Forum
La Niña Brings Southeast, Southwest Drought
International Efforts
Drought Returns in 2010
Impacts Emerge “Before” Summer Drought in East
October-December Quarterly Impacts Summary
Climate Adaptation for Local Government
NDMC Elicits Missouri River Basin Recollections
Woudenberg Coordinates Educational Booklet
Demographic Responses Of Least Terns And Piping Plovers To The 2011 Missouri River Flood—A Large-Scale Case Study, Michael J. Anteau, Mark H. Sherfy, Terry L. Shaffer, Rose J. Swift, Dustin L. Toy, Colin M. Dovichin
Demographic Responses Of Least Terns And Piping Plovers To The 2011 Missouri River Flood—A Large-Scale Case Study, Michael J. Anteau, Mark H. Sherfy, Terry L. Shaffer, Rose J. Swift, Dustin L. Toy, Colin M. Dovichin
Publications of the US Geological Survey
2011 led to substantial changes in abundance and distribution of unvegetated sand habitat. This river system is a major component of the breeding range for interior Least terns (Sternula antillarum; “terns”) and piping plovers (Charadrius melodus; “plovers”), both of which are Federally listed ground-nesting birds that prefer open, unvegetated sand and gravel nesting substrates on sandbars and shorelines. The 2011 flood inundated essentially all tern and plover nesting habitat during 2011, but it had potential to generate post-flood habitat conditions that favored use by terns and plovers in subsequent years. We compared several tern and plover demographic parameters during the …