THE DROUGHT MONITOR
2002/08/01 by Mark Svoboda, Doug LeComte, Mike Hayes +12 · 1,270 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Business #Climate change impacts on agriculture #Computer science #Dissemination #Environmental resource management #Environmental science #Hydrology and Drought Analysis #Process (computing) #Product (mathematics) #Telecommunications #The Internet #World Wide Web
paper · pdf · doi:10.1175/1520-0477-83.8.1181
published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 83(8), 1181-1190 (American Meteorological Society)
openalex publication_date 2002/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Abstract
The Drought Monitor was started in spring 1999 in response to a need for improved information about the status of drought across the United States. It serves as an example of interagency cooperation in a time of limited resources. The Drought Monitor process also illustrates the creative use of Internet technologies to disseminate authoritative information about drought and to receive regional and local input that is in turn incorporated into the product. This paper describes the Drought Monitor and the interactive process through which it is created.
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