Why the Drought Monitor?

Tracking drought blends science and art. No single definition of drought works for all circumstances, so people rely on drought indices to detect and measure droughts. But no single index works under all circumstances, either. That's why we need the Drought Monitor, a synthesis of multiple indices and impacts, that represents a consensus of federal and academic scientists. The product will be refined over time as we find ways to make it better reflect the needs of decision-makers and others who use the information.

For more information about the science or impacts of drought, please visit the National Drought Mitigation Center's web site.

• Joint Agricultural Weather Facility (U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
• Climate Prediction Center (U.S. Department of Commerce/NOAA/National Weather Service)
• National Climatic Data Center (DOC/NOAA)

• National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

• U.S. Geological Survey (U.S. Department of Interior)
• National Water and Climate Center (USDA/Natural Resource Conservation Service)
• Climate Diagnostics Center (DOC/NOAA)
• Regional Climate Centers
• National Weather Service Hydrology (DOC/NOAA)
• State Climatologists
• additional local, state and federal experts

• National Weather Service
  
• Farm Service Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture
  
• state water agencies and other resource management institutions and organizations


• The Weather Channel and other specialized media


• general media and the general public

Be in Touch

Please let us know what you do and don't like about this web site, as well as your ideas about how it could be more useful to you. Contact us:

DroughtMonitor@unl.edu
The Drought Monitor
National Drought Mitigation Center
P.O. Box 830749
Lincoln, NE 68583-0749
402-472-6707 - voice
402-472-6614 - fax