Status of the WDCC
The Western Drought Coordination Council ended its second year in spring 1999 with an agreement to go on hiatus for at least one year, depending on drought in the West and on the work of the National Drought Policy Commission.
Western Climate and Water Status
October 1997-April 1999
Western Climate and Water Status was produced in two forms: as an extended, web-embedded report, and as a two-page executive summary designed to print out (preferably in color) and circulate to busy policy makers. The two-page "Briefing Versions" were produced as pdf documents, so you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free from Adobe or possibly even more easily from your computer support person.
For fresher information: Western Climate and Water Status is based on a multitude of data sources, many of which post regular updates to the web. Many of the same sources are indexed in the National Drought Mitigation Center's Drought Watch.
Information sources: Joint Agricultural Weather Facility, Climate
Prediction Center, Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Weather
Service, State Climatologists, US Geological Survey, National Agricultural
Statistics Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Corps of Engineers, Western Regional
Climate Center, National Drought Mitigation Center, Bureau of Land Management,
National Climatic Data Center, National Ocean Services, US Forest Service,
state agencies, print and broadcast press reports, university research and
extension personnel, state agencies, regional organizations, and others.
(Organized links to come.)
Contacts: This report is by the WDCC Monitoring, Assessment, and Prediction Working Group.
June 1, 2000