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The following data and maps are important tools to developing soil moisture outlook maps.

  • Soil Moisture - A series of maps showing most recent day, monthly and 12 months calculated soil moisture, anomalies and percentiles; and a soil moisture & soil wetness climatology plus a changes in calculated soil moisture anomalies (millimeters) animated loop from January 1998 to the present.
  • Evaporation - A series of maps showing current month & most recent 12 months average evaporation and anomalies; previous 12 months percentiles; and evaporation climatology.
  • Runoff - A series of maps showing current month and most recent 12 months average runoff and anomalies; 12 months percentiles and runoff climatology.
  • Precipitation and Temperature - A series of maps showing current month and most recent 12 months accumulated total precipitation and average temperature, corresponding 12 months percentiles, climatology and 1- & 3-month outlooks.
  • Recent Anomalies - Maps showing the most recent day's soil moisture anomaly & percentile and current month's evaporation, runoff, total precipitation & average temperature anomalies.
  • Recent Changes - Maps showing the current month's soil moisture anomaly change from the previous 1- and 3-month periods.
  • Climatology - Monthly soil moisture, total precipitation, average temperature and evaporation climatology.
  • Experimental Drought Indicator Blends - CPC 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. Both maps show areas of abnormal wetness as well as dryness.
  • Download data - to down load the historical monthly soil moisture data and the daily soil moisture data of this year.

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