According to the Drought Monitor, three dozen reports were received from North Dakota, through the Condition Monitoring Observer system, of drying ponds and creeks, hay and feed shortages, and fire risk. USDA statistics rate more than half of the topsoil short or very short of moisture in Sout...
The latestdrought monitorindicates about three-quarters of the state is experiencing some level of drought stress. The most severe is in the northwest part of South Dakota. According to Governor Kristi Noem, "Our number one industry in this state is ag. And what sustained us during COVID was...
Thursday’s weekly release of the Drought Monitor showed improvement did occur in the Black Hills of South Dakota due to significant rainfall. However, in both North and South Dakota, drought areas were generally expanded due to increasing precipitation deficits. The amount of rainfall recorded for ...
All 17 states of the western two-thirds of the USA were affected by this drought, especially South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Montana and Wyoming with up to 100% of the area affected by severe vegetation stress during 2012–2014. Compared to other catastrophic droughts of the past ...
performance of SVDI, the SVDI_NLDAS data is compared to four drought indices: the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI)32, the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI)33, the Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI)34, and for reference, the United States Drought Monitor (USDM)....
Drought Monitor (USDM; a), Palmer moisture anomaly index (PDSI-Z; b), and Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer surface wetness index (ASWI; c); the red-green-blue (RGB) component influence map (d) shows the relative importance of vapor pressure deficit (VPD), volumetric soil moisture (...
Drought monitoring is a complex process and depends on a variety of complex hydrological and physiological factors that are challenging to monitor consistently and exhaustively in space and time.1 Currently, the US Drought Monitor (USDM) offers weekly data on the occurrence and severity/intensity of...
But inside a laboratory, a warm, man-made drought is in force, curling the leaves of rows of fledgling corn plants as million-dollar machines and scientists in white coats monitor their distress. This work is part of a global race pitting Pioneer, Monsanto Co and other biotech companies agai...
due to the reason that it was so dry through Nebraska and parts of South Dakota in 2023 that what cover crops did go in, they failed. I know that my conversations with folks that I work with in western Kansas and Oklahoma and Texas, cover crops were abysmal...
(AVHRR) has been widely used to monitor moisture-related vegetation condition. The relationship between vegetation vigor and moisture availability, however, is complex and has not been adequately studied with satellite sensor data. To better understand this relationship, an analysis was conducted on ...