United States Drought Monitor
<p>The U.S. Drought Monitor is a map released every Thursday, showing parts of the U.S. that are in drought. The map uses five classifications: abnormally dry (D0), showing areas that may be going into or are coming out of drought, and four levels of drought: moderate (D1), severe (D2), extreme (D3) and exceptional (D4).</p> <p>The Drought Monitor has been a team effort since its inception in 1999, produced jointly by the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The NDMC hosts the web site of the drought monitor and the associated data, and provides the map and data to NOAA, USDA and other agencies. It is freely available at <a href="https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/">https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/</a>. </p><div><br>Resources in this dataset:</div><br><ul><li><p>Resource Title: Website pointer to the United States Drought Monitor .</p> <p>File Name: Web Page, url: <a href="https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx">https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx</a> </p></li></ul><p></p>
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| Format: | Dataset biblioteca |
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2019
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| Subjects: | Climatology, Geomatic engineering, Cartography and digital mapping, Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling, Environmental sciences, United States Drought Monitor, USDM, Online database, |
| Online Access: | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/United_States_Drought_Monitor/24664749 |
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| Summary: | <p>The U.S. Drought Monitor is a map released every Thursday, showing parts of the U.S. that are in drought. The map uses five classifications: abnormally dry (D0), showing areas that may be going into or are coming out of drought, and four levels of drought: moderate (D1), severe (D2), extreme (D3) and exceptional (D4).</p>
<p>The Drought Monitor has been a team effort since its inception in 1999, produced jointly by the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The NDMC hosts the web site of the drought monitor and the associated data, and provides the map and data to NOAA, USDA and other agencies. It is freely available at <a href="https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/">https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/</a>. </p><div><br>Resources in this dataset:</div><br><ul><li><p>Resource Title: Website pointer to the United States Drought Monitor .</p> <p>File Name: Web Page, url: <a href="https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx">https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx</a> </p></li></ul><p></p> |
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