Drought Monitor Forum - Austin 2009 - National Drought Mitigation Center

Drought Monitor Forum - Austin 2009

Celebrating 10 Years of the U.S. Drought Monitor
Austin, TX, October 7-8, 2009
Hosted by: Lower Colorado River Authority, Redbud Center
Sponsored by: National Drought Mitigation Center
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Gregg Garfin, above left, moderated the U.S. Drought Monitor author panel at the end of the day Wednesday. Authors present were, from left to right, Brian Fuchs, Eric Luebehusen, Laura Edwards, Richard Heim, Mark Svoboda, Mike Brewer, and Matt Rosencrans. Among the research needs the authors identified were more data on soil moisture, more consideration of whether there should be two maps to reflect long- and short-term conditions, correlations of drought impacts with drought status, more timely GIS input, and how to account for varied topography such as the mountainous areas of the West.
Kelly Redmond, right, concluded the first day with Musings, Metaphors, and Moving Forward. Much discussion centered around the impossibility of reducing the full complexity of drought at different time scales and for different communities to a two-dimensional map. Despite the difficulty of the task, Redmond underscored the importance of giving stakeholders what they need, namely, a map, ideally reflecting conditions at the fine scales that users are requesting. He also underscored the value of professional judgment: "Objective does not mean strictly numerical. It means rigorous."

Wednesday, October 7

Welcome: Tom Mason, General Manager, Lower Colorado River Authority
Keynote: Bill Proenza, Director, National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarters pdf
Mark Svoboda, NDMC U.S. Drought Monitor's 10-Year Anniversary pdf
Richard Heim, NOAA-NCDC Drought Activities at the NOAA/NCDC Climate Monitoring Branch pdf
Eric Luebehusen, USDA-WAOB-JAWF GIS data for U.S. Drought Assessment: Current Uses and Needs pdf
Matthew Rosencrans and Doug Le Comte, NOAA-CPC Updated Drought Monitoring and Forecasting Efforts from CPC Rosencrans pdf Le Comte pdf
Mike Brewer, NOAA-NCDC NIDIS Portal Activities pdf
John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas State Climatologist Tracking Drought in Texas: Kicking it Down a Notch pdf
David Maidment, University of Texas Basin Level Drought Monitoring: The Upper Trinity Case pdf
Turning Over a New Leaf in Drought Visualization: Greenleaf Ian Cottingham, UNL Computer Science and Engineering pdf
Brian Fuchs, NDMC U.S. National Drought Atlas Update pdf
Laura Edwards, Kelly Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center WestWide Drought Tracker pdf
Mike Palecki, NOAA-NCDC U.S. Climate Reference Network Soil Moisture/Soil Temperature Observations for Drought Monitoring pdf

Thursday, October 8

Eileen Shea, NOAA-NCDC Keynote: Drought in the Context of Climate Services Within NOAA pdf
Lisa Darby, NOAA-NIDIS Program Office National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) Update pdf
Todd Hamill, NOAA-NWS-Raleigh Drought Operations at the Southeast RFC: Getting the Message Out pdf Trailer wmf Two Kids and a Ditch wmf
Michael Moneypenney, NOAA-NWS-Raleigh Narth Carolina Drought Task Force: A Coordination Conduit to the USDM pdf
Gregg Garfin, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona The Moisture Balance Drought Index and Efforts to Improve Drought Indicator Reporting pdf
Nolan Doesken, Henry Reges (pictured), CoCoRaHS Drought is Cuckoo for CoCoRaHS pdf
Kevin Werner, NWS-CORBFC Water Supply/Water Resources Outlook Web Services from the NWS River Forecast Centers pdf
Klaus Wolter, NOAA-PSD What Does El Niño Mean for Drought in Texas? pdf
Bob Rose, LCRA Drought Mointoring at the Basin level within the LCRA pdf
Gabriel Senay, SDSU/EROS A Remote Sensing Approach to Measuring ET pdf
Brian Wardlow, NDMC VegDRI: 2009 Update and Ongoing Activities pdf
Son Nghiem, Jet Propulsion Lab/CalTech and Brad Doorn, NASA HQ NASA Satellite Observation of Soil Moisture Change and Applications to Drought Monitoring
Mark Shafer, SCIPP, University of Oklahoma A New Regional Integrated Science Assessment (RISA) for the South: The Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) pdf
Greg Story, NOAA-NWS West Fulf River Forecast Center The Difficulty of Achieving Good Precipitation Estimates for Use in Real-time Drought Mointoring pdf
G.S. Rao, Purdue University What is Drought? pdf
Kelly Helm Smith, NDMC The New and Improved Drought Impact Reporter pdf

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