Moisture Balance Drought Index

Resources

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Resources

Presentations
A Hydroclimatic Index for Drought Monitoring. Arizona Drought Monitoring Technical Committee. July 2008.

A Multi-Scale Hydroclimatic Index for Monitoring Drought in the Semiarid West. NOAA Climate Prediction and Applications Science Workshop. March 2009.

Drought Index Verification in the Colorado River Basin, USA. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. March 2009.

The Moisture Balance Drought Index and Efforts to Improve Drought Indicator Reporting. U.S. Drought Monitor Forum. October 2009.

How Dry Is It? Satisfying the Growing Thirst for Drought Information. Department of Geography Seminar Series. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. October 2009.

A Moisture Balance Drought Index for the Semiarid West. MTCLIM 2010 Biannual Conference, Consortium for Integrated Climate Research on Western Mountains. Blue River, Oregon. June 2010.

How to Monitor Drought. Colloquium Series. School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University. October 2010. Moisture Balance Drought Index For Monitoring Drought in the Colorado River Basin, Webinar, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. November 2010.

Publications
Ellis AW, Goodrich GB, Garfin GM. 2009. A Hydroclimatic Index for Examining Patterns of Drought in the Colorado River Basin. International Journal of Climatology. DOI: 10.1002/joc.1882.

Ellis AW, Hawkins TW, Lenart M, Murphy KW, Garfin GM, Haws M. 2010. An Evaluation of Representing Climatic Demand in Drought Indices: Hydrologic Drought in the Southwest United States. Water Resources Research. In Revision.

Garfin GM, Ellis AW, Lenart M. 2010. Working with stakeholders to evaluate a new index for drought monitoring and prediction. NOAA-NWS Science and Technology Infusion Climate Bulletin. (Manuscript in progress).

Lenart M, Ellis AW, Crimmins M, Luo H, Garfin GM. 2010. Validation of the Moisture Balance Drought Index: Ecosystem Parameters. International Journal of Climatology. (Manuscript in progress).

Lenart M, Ellis AW. 2010. Introducing the Moisture Balance Drought Index. Southwest Climate Outlook (August 2010).
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