National Drought Mitigation Center
The subportal for the Vegetation Drought Response Index has a new URL – vegdri.unl.edu – and is cleaner-looking and more user-friendly.
Visiting Scholar Focuses on Drought Prediction
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:53:00 -0600
Getachew Berhan Demisse, a visiting scholar at the National Drought Mitigation Center since August 2011, will return to Ethiopia in February, where he will demonstrate his method for predicting drought up to four months ahead. Getachew believes he has found the signal in the noise, having identified which data is meaningful, and he is bringing it together in a way that literally presents a clearer picture of areas affected by drought.
Winter 2012 Edition of DroughtScape Released
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:22:00 -0600
Read the latest edition of DroughtScape, with quarterly and annual climate and impact summaries from a year that saw a record-breaking extent of exceptional drought centered on Texas. Another article describes how NASA satellite data is being used and refined to produce maps showing changes in groundwater, plants' root zone, and soil moisture.
Workshop to Help Kansas Ranchers Weather Drought
Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:30:00 -0600
National Drought Mitigation Center University of Nebraska–Lincoln 819 Hardin Hall 3310 Holdrege Street P.O. Box 830988 Lincoln, NE 68583–0988
phone: (402) 472–6707 fax: (402) 472–2946 e-mail: ndmc@unl.edu
The NDMC partners with the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) to help the U.S. be better prepared for drought.