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U.S. Drought Monitor

Web Editor — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:58:47 +0000

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 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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Drought Severity Evaluation Tool

Web Editor — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:48:56 +0000

The Drought Severity Evaluation Tool is one of the Climate Engine Research App leverages the power of cloud computing to enable users to analyze decades of satellite and climate data. Already, this powerful tool is being used by the US Bureau of Land Management, the US Forest Service, and NOAA, among others.

The Climate Engine App is a no-code solution for on-demand cloud computing and visualization of climate and satellite Earth Observation data. It is for academic and non-commercial research only.
Climate Engine allows looking at datasets either through map layers or time series figures.

The Drought Severity Evaluation Tool

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C3S Soil Erosion Italy

Web Editor — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 21:19:53 +0000

Soil erosion comes with a range of negative consequences, from reducing agricultural yield to damaging buildings. Using data and tools from the C3S Climate Data Store (CDS), the Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) has developed a dataset and two applications for investigating rainfall-induced soil erosion in Italy.

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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