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National Integrated Drought Information System

Dataset Summary

Agency	Department of Commerce
Sub-Agency/Organization	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Category	Geography and Environment
Date Released	12/2009
Date Updated	7/06/2010
Time Period	Present
Frequency	Monthly, Weekly, Daily
Description	The tool provides access to US drought data, forecasts, and information from across federal and state agencies, tribes, universities, and other partners. Data is provided using visualization tools within the Portal or as links directly to an appropriate website from the data's host institution.

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Tool Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation	Geospatial
Keywords	drought, rainfall, precipitation, soil, NEXRAD, PDSI, PHDF, PMDI, PZI, temperature, vegetation, evaporation, streamflow, streams, monitoring, education, hydrology, moisture, impacts, climate change, runoff, index, UPPI, CRN, NIDIS
Unique ID	2458

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	http://www.drought.gov
Agency Program Page	http://www.climate.noaa.gov
Agency Data Series Page	http://www.drought.gov

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis	N/A
Granularity
Geographic Coverage	United States, North America

Data Description

Collection Mode	web
Data Collection Instrument	http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/crn/instrdoc.html
Data Dictionary/Variable List	http://www.weather.gov/glossary/

Additional Dataset Documentation

Technical Documentation	http://www.drought.gov, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/crn/observations.htm
FGDC Compliance (Geospatial Only)
Additional Metadata

OMB Control No. 3090-0284