This is an
informal list of some resources for drought information for the
region.If you have
any questions, comments, or suggestions for this page please
send them to me.If
you would like to be put on a contact list for information on
drought-related activities for the region, please send me your
information.
Matt Barlow
Associate
Professor of Climate Science
University of
Massachusetts Lowell
Mathew_Barlow@uml.edu
@MathewABarlow
12-Month
Drought Estimate from IRI (click to go to data)
a) Annual mean precipitation, b)
elevation, c) growing season vegetation, and d) coefficient of
variation for annual precipitation (ratio of the standard
deviation to the mean).The
contour intervals for precipitationand elevation are 10cm and 0.5km, respectively.The growing season
vegetation is estimated by Apr-Aug Normalized Difference
Vegetation Index (NDVI).Both
NDVI and the coefficient of variation are unitless ratios, with
contour intervals of 0.1 in both cases.The NDVI is shaded from
light green (least vegetative vigor) to red (most vigor), to allow
visual discrimination of the large range in vegetative vigor over
the region. The GPCC version 6 dataset (Schneider et al. 2013,
Rudolf et al. 2003) is used for precipitation, with the averaged
calculated for the 1951-2010 period, the GIMMS NDVIg dataset
(Pinzon et al. 2005, Tucker et al. 2005), produced by the Global
Land Cover Facility (GLCF) at the University of Maryland – College
Park, is used for NDVI, for the1981-2006 period, and the ETOPO5
dataset (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, 1988) is used for
topography. This is Fig. 4 from Barlow et al. (in
review).
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