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Calibrating human attention as indicator: Monitoring #drought in the Twittersphere
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A pilot study found that #drought tweets reflect changes in attention to drought within states, suggesting that social media can contribute to a drought early warning system.State climatologists and other expert drought ...
Evaluating Statewide Climate Extremes for the United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he NOAA National Climatic Data Center maintains tables for temperature and precipitation extremes in each of the U.S. states. Many of these tables were several years out of date, however, and therefore did not include a ...
Revisiting the Statewide Climate Extremes for the United States: Evaluating Existing Extremes, Archived Data, and New Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ime extreme climate records have been set in several states over the past few years. These records highlighted a need to review the existing statewide climate extremes tables maintained by the NOAA National Climatic Data ...
Lessons Learned from the 2017 Flash Drought Across the U.S. Northern Great Plains and Canadian Prairies
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The rapid onset and severity of the 2017 Northern Great Plains drought, which resulted in agricultural losses exceeding $2.6 billion, motivated a multi-agency investigation of drought-related coordination and management ...