THE DROUGHT MONITOR

THE DROUGHT MONITOR

The Drought Monitor was started in spring 1999 in response to a need for improved information about the status of drought across the United States. It serves as an example of interagency cooperation in a time of limited resources. The Drought Monitor process also illustrates the creative use of Inte...

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Veröffentlicht in:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2002-08, Vol.83 (8), p.1181-1190
Hauptverfasser: Svoboda, Mark, LeComte, Doug, Hayes, Mike, Heim, Richard, Gleason, Karin, Angel, Jim, Rippey, Brad, Tinker, Rich, Palecki, Mike, Stooksbury, David, Miskus, David, Stephens, Scott
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Agriculture
Climate models
Climatic zones
Crops
Drought
Earth, ocean, space
Environmental monitoring
Exact sciences and technology
External geophysics
Hydrology
Meteorology
Other topics in atmospheric geophysics
Precipitation
Soil water
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Zusammenfassung:The Drought Monitor was started in spring 1999 in response to a need for improved information about the status of drought across the United States. It serves as an example of interagency cooperation in a time of limited resources. The Drought Monitor process also illustrates the creative use of Internet technologies to disseminate authoritativeinformation about drought and to receive regional and local input that is in turn incorporated into the product. This paper describes the Drought Monitor and the interactive process through which it is created.
ISSN:0003-0007
1520-0477
DOI:10.1175/1520-0477(2002)083<1181:TDM>2.3.CO;2