Session 8 |
| | Drought II |
| | Chair: Henry Reges, CoCoRaHS/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
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| 10:30 AM | 8.1 | Monitoring drought with the U.S. climate reference network
Michael Palecki, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and B. B. Baker |
| 10:45 AM | 8.2 | The floating month drought index—a new drought monitoring tool 
Richard R. Heim Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 11:00 AM | 8.3 | A New National Drought Atlas from the National Drought Mitigation Center
Brian Fuchs, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and M. Svoboda, S. Scott, and J. Nothwehr |
| 11:15 AM | 8.4 | Drought services: activities and tools at the National Drought Mitigation Center
Michael Hayes, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and M. Svoboda, B. Fuchs, S. Scott, K. Smith, C. Knutson, and B. Wardlow |
| 11:30 AM | 8.5 | WestWide Drought Tracker: Drought monitoring and climate indices in the western United States
Laura M. Edwards, DRI, Reno, NV; and K. T. Redmond and J. T. Abatzoglou |
| 11:45 AM | 8.6 | A new tool for high-resolution drought assessment and monitoring
Brent McRoberts, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. Nielsen-Gammon and G. Story |