1. Drought Early Warning and Information Tools KT Ingram Presented to Southeast-ACF Drought Early Warning Information System Development Workshop: Apalachicola River & Bay NIDIS Pilot 27-28 April 2010, Apalachicola, FL

2. The many faces of drought Climatological – SPI deviation from normal Hydrological – Streamflow, groundwater depth o Local vs indirect Agricultural – reduced growth, yield, quality o Rainfed vs irrigated o Duration, intensity, and timing Drought and heat

3. Outline US Drought Portal o NIDIS o National drought monitor River Forecast Center US Geological Survey State Climate Offices o LGMI high resolution monitoring Southeast Climate Consortium o KBDI forecast o LGMI monitoring and forecast o ARID monitoring

4. Drought.gov

5. Interactive map viewer – Current DM http://www.drought.gov/portal/server.pt/community/drought_gov/map_viewer

6. Interactive map viewer -- Outlook http://www.drought.gov/portal/server.pt/community/drought_gov/map_viewer

7. SE River Forecast Center: Current conditions www.srh.noaa.gov.serfc

8. SE River Forecast Center Precipitation forecast

9. waterwatch.usgs.gov

10. USGA Ground water monitoring

11. Alabama Office of the State Climatologist LGMI is updated daily, based on Doppler radar precipitation estimates to give a 4 km × 4 km resolution http://nsstc.uah.edu/aosc/lawn_garden_se.html

12. AgroClimate.org AgroClimate is a web-based decision support system, which was developed by the SECC and is now hosted by Florida Cooperative Extension When SECC drought tools have been tested and evaluated by users, they are added to AgroClimate

13. Wildfire threat forecast http://agroclimate.org/forestry/wildfire/wildfire.php

14. http://elnino.agen.ufl.edu/forecasts/LGMI/map/

15. LGMI: monitor and forecast

16. Agricultural Reference Index for Drought – ARID An experimental product

17. ARID Monitor – forecast to be added

18. Please visit us at: AgroClimate.org AgroClimate.org SEClimate.org SEClimate.org Open.AgroClimate.org Open.AgroClimate.org