Drought Links

Here are a few URL's pertaining to droughts:

• NOAA's Drought Information Center

• USDA's Drought Information

• Kansas Water Office Drought page (KWO)

• Kansas Drought Mitigation Center

• Palmer Drought Index

• Crop Moisture Index - Short-term, crop need versus available water in 5-foot soil profile.

• Kansas Agricultural Report - Kansas weekly crop weather, released on Monday's.

• North American Drought: A Paleo Perspective

• CLIMVIS - Climatic data for Kansas and other States, Palmer Drought Indicies, and Climatic Division precipitation data and graphs through CLIMVIS. The URL is: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/onlineprod/drought/main.html

• U.S. Drought Monitor - New analysis of data are released each Thursday at 8:30 a.m. CDT.

• Keetch-Byram Drought Index

• Association between solar-irradiance variations and hydroclimatology of selected regions of the USA

• Solar-irradiance variations and regional precipitation fluctuations in the western United States