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United States Drought Monitor

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posted on 2023-11-30, 08:29 authored by National Drought Mitigation Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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).

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 https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/.


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Funding

U.S. Department of Agriculture

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

History

Data contact name

Fuchs, Brian

Data contact email

DroughtMonitor@unl.edu

Publisher

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Temporal Extent Start Date

1999-01-01

Theme

  • Not specified

Geographic Coverage

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Geographic location - description

United States; Puerto Rico; U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands; Guam; Mariana Islands; Marshall Islands; U.S. Virgin Islands; American Samoa; Micronesia; Palau

ISO Topic Category

  • climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
  • environment
  • farming
  • location
  • planningCadastre

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

United States; drought; filters; climate; weather forecasting; rivers; urban areas; USDA; statistics; geographic information systems; disasters; graphs; monitoring; data collection; databases; Puerto Rico; Pacific Ocean Islands; Virgin Islands; hydrology; ecology

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

Preferred dataset citation

National Drought Mitigation Center; U.S. Department of Agriculture; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2019). United States Drought Monitor. University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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    Keywords

    United States Drought MonitorUSDMOnline database

    Licence

    U.S. Public Domain

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