US Drought Monitor (USDM)

Description: The US Drought Monitor (USDM) raster dataset is produced by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS). This dataset is a gridded version of the US Drought Monitor (USDM) produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) where for each 2.5-km gridcell, the value is given by the current USDM drought classification for that region is: 

• NoData Value=-9999 = no drought or wet
• 0 = abnormal dry
• 1 = moderate drought
• 2= severe drought
• 3= extreme drought
• 4= exceptional drought

Organization: NCEI-NIDIS

Spatial resolution: 2.5-km (0.025 deg)

Time Span: 2001-01-04 to Present (updated every 7 days)

Variables:

• USDM Drought Classification

Website: USDM Website

Google Earth Engine: 

• This USDM raster dataset is not publicly available on Google Earth Engine yet. Climate Engine accesses this data as a private GEE asset by scraping data from here.
• A similar USDM Earth Engine collection is provided through the Earth Engine Community Catalog.

Terms of Use:

• This is a public dataset. As a condition of using these data, you are asked to cite the use of this data set.

References:

• The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Map courtesy of NDMC.