Planning for Drought

The Basics of Drought Planning: A 10-Step Process

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State and/or University Websites | Websites of State Networks
Websites of Regional Networks | The Unified Climate Access Network Website

State and/or university websites dealing with drought:

Alabama www.aces.edu/drought/
Colorado cwcb.state.co.us/owc/Drought_Planning/Colorado_Drought_Information.htm
Delaware www.wr.udel.edu/publicservice/govwscc.html
Florida www.floridadisaster.org/bpr/EMTOOLS/florida_drought_center.htm
Georgia www.georgiadrought.org
Illinois www.sws.uiuc.edu/atmos/statecli/general/drought.htm
Indiana www.agriculture.purdue.edu/droughtwatch/index.html
Iowa www.extension.iastate.edu/Pages/communications/drought/
Kansas www.kwo.org/Reports%20&%20Publications/drought.htm
Kentucky www.water.ky.gov/wateruse/drought/ and wwwagwx.ca.uky.edu/drought.html
Maryland www.mde.state.md.us/Water/Drought/index.asp
Minnesota www.climate.umn.edu/doc/drought_2000.htm
Missouri www.dnr.state.mo.us/geology/droughtupdate.htm
Montana

www.nris.state.mt.us/Drought

Nebraska carcunl.dnr.state.ne.us/
New Jersey www.state.nj.us/drbc/drought/droughthpframeset.htm
New Mexico weather.nmsu.edu/drought/index.htm
North Carolina www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climate/drought.html and www.enr.state.nc.us/html/drought.html
North Dakota www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/drought/drought.htm
Oklahoma climate.ocs.ou.edu/rainfall_update.html and www.owrb.state.ok.us/supply/drought/drought_index.php
Pennsylvania www.cas.psu.edu/docs/coext/disaster/drought1.html and www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/subject/hotopics/drought/
South Carolina water.dnr.state.sc.us/climate/sco/drought.html
Texas agnews.tamu.edu/drought/ and www.txwin.net/dpc/index.htm and www.twdb.state.tx.us/DATA/DROUGHT/drought_toc.htm
Wisconsin www.uwex.edu/ces/news/info/drought.pdf
Wyoming www.wrds.uwyo.edu/wrds/wsc/dtf/drought.html

A number of universities, states, and federal agencies maintain automated weather data networks.
Websites of state networks:

Alabama www.awis.com/mesonet/index.html
(Auburn University Mesonet stations)
Arizona ag.arizona.edu/azmet/
(AZMET, the Arizona Meteorological Network)
California wwwcimis.water.ca.gov/cimis/welcome.jsp
(California Irrigation Management Information System - CIMIS)
Colorado ccc.atmos.colostate.edu/~coagmet
(CoAgMet weather stations)
Florida fawn.ifas.ufl.edu/
(Florida Automated Weather Network - FAWN)
Georgia www.griffin.peachnet.edu/bae/
(Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network)
Illinois www.sws.uiuc.edu/warm/datalist.asp
(Illinois Climate Network Data)
Iowa mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/agclimate/index.php
(Iowa Ag Climate Network)
Indiana shadow.agry.purdue.edu/sc.zen-geog.html
(Purdue Automated Agricultural Weather Stations Network—PAAWS)
Louisiana www.agctr.lsu.edu/weather/
(Louisiana Agriclimatic Information System—LAIS)
Michigan www.agweather.geo.msu.edu/mawn/
(Michigan State University automated weather stations)
Missouri agebb.missouri.edu/weather/stations/index.htm
(Commercial Agriculture Program weather stations)
New Mexico weather.nmsu.edu/
(New Mexico State University climate stations)
North Carolina http://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu/cronos/ or
hatteras.meas.ncsu.edu/agnet
(NCARS Weather and Climate Network)
North Dakota www.ext.nodak.edu/weather/ndawn/old-ndawn-home.html
(North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network - NDAWN)
Oklahoma okmesonet.ocs.ou.edu/
(Oklahoma Mesonet)
South Dakota

climate.sdstate.edu/climate_site/climate.htm
(South Dakota Automatic Weather Data Network - SDAWDN)

Washington frost.prosser.wsu.edu/
(Washington State University Public Agricultural Weather System - PAWS)
Wisconsin www.soils.wisc.edu/wimnext/awon/awon.html
(University of Wisconsin Automated Weather Observation Network - AWON)

Websites of regional networks:

Western United States www.met.utah.edu/jhorel/html/mesonet/
(MesoWest)
Northeastern United States www.erh.noaa.gov/er/btv/html/mesonethome.html
(BTV Mesonet)
Pacific Northwest www.usbr.gov/pn/agrimet/
(Bureau of Reclamation's AgriMet)
U.S. High Plains www.hprcc.unl.edu/awdn/home.html
(High Plains Climate Center's Automated Weather Data Network - AWDN)

 

The Unified Climate Access Network (UCAN) website: met-www.cit.cornell.edu/ucan.net/UCAN.html

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