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1 National Climatic Data Center NADM Status and National Drought Monitoring in the USA Richard R. Heim Jr. NOAA/NESDIS/National Climatic Data Center Asheville, North Carolina, USA North American Drought Monitor Forum Asheville, NC, USA – 20 April 2010

2 National Climatic Data Center National Drought Monitoring in USA Dozens of Federal, State & Local Government Agencies, and Commercial Organizations, Monitor Drought Dozens of Drought Indicators U.S. Drought Monitor – the operational drought monitoring tool for national drought monitoring

3 National Climatic Data Center NCDC State of the Climate Drought Reports Monthly reports  Narrative & graphics  NOAA press release, plus: Global Analysis, Global Hazards & Significant Events, National Overview, Drought, Wildfire, Hurricane sections Drought Termination Drought Monitoring Tools

4 National Climatic Data Center NADM – U.S. Status For the U.S. portion of the NADM, we use the U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) for the week closest to the end of the month  USDM is an operational product issued weekly, NADM issued monthly  USDM first issued in 1999 http://drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html  USDM authors:  NOAA (NCDC, CPC)  USDA (JAWF)  National Drought Mitigation Center  Western Regional Climate Center* –* just added Sept 2009!

5 National Climatic Data Center NADM – U.S. Status U.S. climate divisions U.S. stations U.S. stations NOAA/NCDC  Hosts the NADM web site: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/monitoring/drought/nadm/index.html  Computes the continental indicators for the NADM U.S., Canadian, Mexican SPI, PCTPCP, & Palmer Drought Indices NDMC  Maintains USDM web site NOAA/CPC  Maintains USDM/NADM ftp site

6 National Climatic Data Center NADM – Web Services NADM web site – static web page with static images

7 National Climatic Data Center NADM – Web Services NADM web site – transitioning to interactive web site with GIS web services NADM shapefiles Location of Indicator Stations Station Indicator Data

8 National Climatic Data Center FMDI – Floating Month Drought Index FMDI – a new drought index to provide guidance on drought termination amidst conflicting indicators

9 National Climatic Data Center FMDI – Floating Month Drought Index FMDI – a new drought index inspired by the Australian decile- based drought definition, USDM, & Objective Blends Based on precipitation percentiles Computes:  Precipitation percentile for current month  Length (number of consecutive months) and begin year/month of current dry spell  Precipitation percentile for current N-month dry spell  Dx dry spell category (based on USDM categories) for current month  Length (number of consecutive months) and begin year/month of current wet spell  Precipitation percentile for current N-month wet spell  Wx wet spell category (based on analog to USDM categories)

10 National Climatic Data Center FMDI – Floating Month Drought Index Dry Spell begins – when 3 consecutive months each have an anomaly <= 30 th percentile and the anomaly of total precipitation for the 3 consecutive dry months falls beyond the cutoff (<= 30 percentile) Dry Spell ends when:  the total precipitation for the months from beginning anchor year-month to current month no longer falls beyond the cutoff (<= 30 th percentile), OR  the precipitation for the past 3 months is extremely wet (3-month total precipitation >= 70 th percentile)

11 National Climatic Data Center FMDI – Floating Month Drought Index Wet Spell ends when:  the total precipitation for the months from beginning anchor year-month to current month no longer falls beyond the cutoff (>= 70 th percentile), OR  the precipitation for the past 3 months is extremely dry (3-month total precipitation <= 30 th percentile) Wet Spell begins – when 3 consecutive months each have an anomaly >= 70 th percentile and the anomaly of total precipitation for the 3 consecutive wet months fall beyond the cutoff (>= 70 percentile)

12 National Climatic Data Center FMDI – Floating Month Drought Index Has a Near-Real Time component and a Backstepping component Requires serially complete data

13 National Climatic Data Center FMDI – Floating Month Drought Index Modification added for exceptionally dry seasons If no seasonality in precipitation, then monthly normal = 1/12 of annual normal for every month: P norm(month) = 1/12 * P norm(annual) If a month is normally very dry, then don’t count it as a drought or wet spell trigger. Solution: Find threshold X: P norm(month) < X * 1/12 * P norm(annual) Koeppen- Trewartha “f” climate Koeppen- Trewartha “s” climate

14 National Climatic Data Center FMDI Correlations With Other Drought Indices, All Months, All Divisions: Different Thresholds for Dry Season (Value for Factor X) INDEX No Threshold (0) 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 10% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 30% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 50% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 70% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 90% 1/1931-7/2009 PMDI 0.713 0.7170.7080.6840.615 PHDI 0.6580.6590.6650.6620.6460.592 PDSI 0.688 0.6900.6790.6550.588 Z Index 0.6190.6180.6120.5980.5730.505 SPI – 1 0.5550.5540.5420.5190.4920.426 SPI – 2 0.6510.6490.6350.6070.5720.487 SPI – 3 0.7590.7580.7410.7060.6630.558 SPI – 6 0.715 0.7120.6960.6670.579 SPI – 9 0.6590.6600.6650.6640.6510.591 SPI – 12 0.6070.6080.6170.6230.6180.578 SPI – 24 0.4640.4650.4770.4900.4970.499 USDM 0.520* 0.519*0.516*0.505*0.478* * 1/2000-7/2009

15 National Climatic Data Center FMDI Correlations With Other Drought Indices, All Months, All Divisions: Different Thresholds for Dry Season (Value for Factor X) INDEX No Threshold (0) 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 10% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 30% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 50% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 70% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 90% 1/1931-7/2009 PMDI 0.713 0.7170.7080.6840.615 PHDI 0.6580.6590.6650.6620.6460.592 PDSI 0.688 0.6900.6790.6550.588 Z Index 0.6190.6180.6120.5980.5730.505 SPI – 1 0.5550.5540.5420.5190.4920.426 SPI – 2 0.6510.6490.6350.6070.5720.487 SPI – 3 0.7590.7580.7410.7060.6630.558 SPI – 6 0.715 0.7120.6960.6670.579 SPI – 9 0.6590.6600.6650.6640.6510.591 SPI – 12 0.6070.6080.6170.6230.6180.578 SPI – 24 0.4640.4650.4770.4900.4970.499 USDM 0.520* 0.519*0.516*0.505*0.478* * 1/2000-7/2009

16 National Climatic Data Center FMDI Correlations With Other Drought Indices, All Months, All Divisions: Different Thresholds for Dry Season (Value for Factor X) INDEX No Threshold (0) 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 10% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 30% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 50% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 70% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 90% 1/1931-7/2009 PMDI 0.713 0.7170.7080.6840.615 PHDI 0.6580.6590.6650.6620.6460.592 PDSI 0.688 0.6900.6790.6550.588 Z Index 0.6190.6180.6120.5980.5730.505 SPI – 1 0.5550.5540.5420.5190.4920.426 SPI – 2 0.6510.6490.6350.6070.5720.487 SPI – 3 0.7590.7580.7410.7060.6630.558 SPI – 6 0.715 0.7120.6960.6670.579 SPI – 9 0.6590.6600.6650.6640.6510.591 SPI – 12 0.6070.6080.6170.6230.6180.578 SPI – 24 0.4640.4650.4770.4900.4970.499 USDM 0.520* 0.519*0.516*0.505*0.478* * 1/2000-7/2009 X = 0.30

17 National Climatic Data Center FMDI Correlations With Other Drought Indices, All Months, All Divisions: Different Thresholds for Dry Season (Value for Factor X) INDEX No Threshold (0) 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 10% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 30% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 50% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 70% 1/1931-7/2009 Threshold 90% 1/1931-7/2009 PMDI 0.713 0.7170.7080.6840.615 PHDI 0.6580.6590.6650.6620.6460.592 PDSI 0.688 0.6900.6790.6550.588 Z Index 0.6190.6180.6120.5980.5730.505 SPI – 1 0.5550.5540.5420.5190.4920.426 SPI – 2 0.6510.6490.6350.6070.5720.487 SPI – 3 0.7590.7580.7410.7060.6630.558 SPI – 6 0.715 0.7120.6960.6670.579 SPI – 9 0.6590.6600.6650.6640.6510.591 SPI – 12 0.6070.6080.6170.6230.6180.578 SPI – 24 0.4640.4650.4770.4900.4970.499 USDM 0.520* 0.519*0.516*0.505*0.478* * 1/2000-7/2009 No Seasonal Check: Strongest Correspondence Strong Seasonal Check: Weakest Correspondence

18 National Climatic Data Center Comparison of FMDI to other standard drought indicators. NO SEASONALITY

19 National Climatic Data Center Comparison of FMDI to other standard drought indicators. SEASONALITY: X=0.30

20 National Climatic Data Center Living Blended Paleo Drought Monitoring The instrumental data record (PDI & PHDI) only ~100 years long Paleoclimatic (tree ring) data can extend our drought historical perspective back several hundred to thousands of years The LBPD project blends the current instrumental Palmer Drought Index data with the long-term gridded paleo data

21 National Climatic Data Center Living Blended Paleo Drought Project Station data network across U.S., Canada, & Mexico 0.5 x 0.5 degree latitude/longitude grid, 11,398 gridpoints Fine spatial resolution for continental monitoring Will be updated operationally on a monthly basis This project is intended to expand our historical perspective Serially and spatially complete But it will have an operational component that can be used to support the NADM 11,398

22 National Climatic Data Center LBPD  NADM Operational Support The LBPD gridded data base can support:  NADM continental indicators  NADM Objective Blends  FMDI for North America

23 National Climatic Data Center Living Blended Paleo Drought Project Status:  Historical instrumental gridded data base created from station data (1895-present)  Paleo regression software ready  Operational software and data base “in progress”  Will be housed within the NIDIS Drought Portal environment

24 National Climatic Data Center Thank You! Richard.Heim@noaa.gov NCDC Climate Monitoring Branch Reports & Products: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/monitoring.html NCDC State of the Climate Reports: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/ North America Drought Monitor: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/monitoring/drought/nadm/index.html U.S. Drought Monitor: http://drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html NIDIS: http://drought.gov/

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