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Tuesday, September 7, 2021. 1:00 PM. Webinar: Drought Indices and Indicators for the U.S. Northeast. Adam Xia and Dan McEvoy, Desert Research Institute; Mike Hobbins, NOAA. Sponsored by National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), Desert Research Institute (DRI), Northeast Region Climate Center (NRCC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science at the University of Colorado Boulder (CIRES). Register here.

NOAA's National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), the Desert Research Institute (DRI), and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science at the University of Colorado Boulder (CIRES), in cooperation with the Northeast Region Climate Center (NRCC), are pleased to announce two upcoming webinars in September. In the first webinar, researchers from DRI and CIRES will share project findings on drought indices and indicators that support the monitoring and management of different drought types in the northeast United States. In the second webinar, the team will share their Drought Monitoring Toolbox for the Northeast.

This first webinar will include the following research project highlights:

Drought index relationships to crop health

Understanding snow droughts in the Northeast

Flash drought

A case study detailing the 2020 Northeast drought