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 website of the drought monitor and the associated data, and provides the map and data to NOAA, USDA and other agencies.

The USDA uses the drought monitor to trigger disaster declarations and eligibility for low-interest loans. The Farm Service Agency uses it to help determine eligibility for their Livestock Forage Program, and the Internal Revenue Service uses it for tax deferral on forced livestock sales due to drought. State, local, tribal and basin-level decision-makers use it to trigger drought responses, ideally along with other more local indicators of drought.

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CMCC produced the ‘Soil erosion indicators for Italy from 1981 to 2080’ dataset by integrating CDS rainfall data with non-climate data to assess soil susceptibility to water erosion according to the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) approach. RUSLE is an empirical model of soil loss that accounts for soil susceptibility to erosion and rainfall erosivity.

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