Providing Equitable Drought Risk Assessment in a Changing Climate

NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) program, coordinates and advances drought monitoring, early warning, forecasting, and planning at federal, tribal, state, and local levels. NIDIS supports communities to plan, prepare and respond to drought. To address worsening climate change driven increases in intensity, duration and cascading hazards related to drought, the development of the Climate Adapted Drought Planning (CADP) Platform will provide equitable and assessable technical assistance to all communities, tribes, raw water providers and water managers, agricultural producers and others. The CADP will bridge large gaps across communities in accessing and utilizing government science, data and cutting edge technologies, to provide accurate drought risk assessments in a changing climate. The CADP increases equity across scales, making science on weather and climate dynamics, variability and predictability, modeling systems and technical knowledge available and usable for a broad audience affected by worsening drought conditions.