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Cory Matteson | National Drought Mitigation Center

The journal Rangeland and Ecological Management recently published an article detailing the results of a survey of western South Dakota ranchers who endured a 2016 flash drought that significantly altered forage production in the area.

Study: Ranchers with drought plans make some pivotal moves sooner

January 5, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

U.S. Drought Monitor

National Drought Mitigation Center enters into three-year USDA agreement

December 16, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Each Monday, National Drought Mitigation Center assistant director Kelly Helm Smith emails a map of the past week’s #drought tweets to a listserv of drought experts and state climatologists.

Pilot system monitors tweets for drought early warning

November 5, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Information from the NASA GRACE-FO satellites is being used to produce and share first-of-their-kind global maps of topsoil, root zone soil and groundwater moisture, as well as 30-, 60- and 90-day forecasts of wet and dry conditions across the continental United States, thanks to a collaboration with the Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies and National Drought Mitigation Center.

Drought center, CALMIT help launch drought-monitoring, forecast tools

April 2, 2020

Husker who coined 'flash drought' helps define emerging phenomenon

March 11, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

The most recent edition of the U.S. Drought Monitor covers conditions in all of the U.S. states and territories. The coverage was recently expanded to include the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Drought monitor now includes U.S. Virgin Islands

August 20, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

National Drought Mitigation Center graduate assistant Markéta Poděbradská leads a trial run of NDMC's Ready for Drought game. | Shawna Richter-Ryerson

National Drought Mitigation Center unveils new game

June 24, 2019