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NIDIS News

What is Flash Drought? Takeaways from the NIDIS Flash Drought Workshop

General News, Interagency Programs, National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), NIDIS Events, NIDIS News / By

The 2017 Northern Plains flash drought’s swift onset and severity were not forecasted, and it resulted in fires that burned 4.8 million acres and U.S. agricultural losses in excess of $2.6 billion dollars. Episodes like this have sparked intense interest in flash drought and a clear conceptualization of what it is in both the research community and the end user/applications community

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NIDIS and USGS to Co-host Ecological Drought National Webinar Series

General News, Interagency Programs, National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), NIDIS Events, NIDIS News / By

The four-part webinar series, taking place in February and March, seeks to raise awareness of ecological drought, share actions that strengthen ecosystem resilience and mitigate the impacts of droughts, and discuss research and management needs for future drought planning and preparedness.

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Missouri River Basin DEWS Strategic Plan Released

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NIDIS has released its Strategic Plan for the Missouri River Basin Drought Early Warning System. The document outlines priority tasks to build drought early warning capacity and resilience. The plan also includes considerations of the effects of the 2017 Northern Plains flash drought.

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Higher Atmospheric Thirst from Climate Change to Increase Fire Danger and Drought in California and Nevada

CAP/Regional Integrated Science and Assessments (RISA), CAP/RISA News, Climate and Societal Interactions (CSI), CSI News, National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), NIDIS News / By

Since the start of the 21st century California and Nevada have suffered extreme wildland fires and droughts that have caused devastating impacts to ecosystems and society. A common feature of these events has been very high evaporative demand—the “thirst” of the atmosphere—which has largely been driven by increased air temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change

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Characterizing and Anticipating U.S. Droughts’ Complex Interactions

Funding Opportunities/NOFO News, MAPP News, NIDIS News / By

The Climate Program Office’s Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) Program, in collaboration with the National Integrated Drought Information system (NIDIS) program is announcing 11 new 3-year projects in Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) that aim to advance our capability to more integrally characterize and anticipate U.S. droughts in the context of hydroclimatic variability and change, linking this research

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Coping with Drought

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NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) Program is announcing five new 2-year projects in Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20), through a multi-program collaboration, that aim to improve our understanding and use of drought indicators, thresholds and triggers, and drought impact reporting to inform decision-making to prepare for and respond to drought. The competitively selected projects total $2,776,805,

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New Report on Drought and Outdoor Recreation

Climate.gov RSS, General News, Interagency Programs, National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), NIDIS News / By

Outdoor recreation is a major contributor to the Intermountain West’s economy, but the future viability of many businesses—particularly small businesses—in the industry is threatened by their drought vulnerabilities and the region’s projected increases in drought severity and frequency.

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