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CPC - Outreach: NOAA Climate Press Releases
July, Drought Severity Worsened, Global Temperature 7th Warmest For July 8/9/07 - NOAA Updates Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook 7/19/07 - NOAA Foresees Continued Drought In West, Worsening Short-Term Drought In Upper ... New Heat Warning System in New Orleans 6/15/01 - Remnants Of Allison End Short-Term Drought in South; Snow and Rain in the Northwest Ease Dryness 6/12/01 - NOAA Calculates ...
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NOAA's Palmer Drought Severity Index
The Palmer Index is most effective in determining long term drought—a matter of several months—and is not as good with short-term forecasts (a matter of weeks). It uses a 0 as normal, and drought ...
www.drought.noaa.gov

NCDC: Historic Palmer Drought Indices
Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI): attempts to measure the duration and intensity of the long-term drought-inducing circulation patterns. Long-term drought is cumulative, so the intensity of drought ...
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Climate Prediction Center - Monitoring & Data: Drought Monitoring
Drought Indicator Blends - The CPC also produces two experimental drought blend maps, featuring a long-term drought blend of indices designed to better depict hydrological drought and a short-term blend to depict agricultural drought ...
www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov

Montana & Idaho - Drought of 2005? :: HarvestH2O.com
Could rain water harvesting help alleviate some of the short term effects of less snowpack? Since one inch of rain falling ... in its worst drought in 500 years (http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/fs/2004/3062/). The federal Drought Monitor (http://www.drought.unl.edu/risk/us/usimpacts.htm) currently shows that every Western state remains in drought at ...
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NOAA Home Page - Drought Information Center
Drought Information Center Wed August 13 2008 Home Contacts Media Disclaimer Search People Locator Enter Search Term(s): Advanced Search Home Page Menu Air Quality Aviation Charts Climate Coasts Contacts Disclaimer Diving Drought ...
www.drought.noaa.gov

Natural Hazards.org: Investigate: Drought
In the long-term, successful drought mitigation requires assessing the amount of water available in a region and then ... gov.au National Drought Mitigation Center drought.unl.edu NOAA Climate Prediction Center www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov NOAA Drought Information Center www.drought.noaa.gov NOAA Hydrologic Information Center - Drought http:// ...
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Drought Royal Meteorological Society UK, Weather and Climate
Chartered Environmentalist » Vocational Qualifications » The MetLink Weather Project » Online Shop Drought What is a drought? There is no simple answer to this question. Dictionaries and glossaries tell us that a drought is a long period of dry weather when there is much less rainfall than average, but this is rather vague. Drought is a relative term and rainfall-related ...
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Oxfam's Cool Planet - On the Line - teachers' resources - secondary - Drought, nomads and the price of peanuts
Oxfam's Cool Planet - On the Line - teachers' resources - secondary - Drought, nomads and the price of peanuts Drought, nomads and the price of peanuts Issues: Land use and trade Description: Using industrial ... water, fertilizer and debt (borrowing for seeds, etc); and whilst it may reveal a short term gain, it may also encourage drier soils, loss of surrounding vegetation and falling soil fertility ...
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Save the Elephants - Long-term memory may help elephants survive climate change
Save the Elephants > Communication > Elephant News Service > News reader Long-term memory may help elephants survive climate change Long-term memory may help elephants survive climate change WCS August 11, 2008 ... , the study examines patterns of calf mortality during the drought of 1993 in Tanzania's Tarangire National Park, the most severe drought in that region in the past 35 years. During a ...
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