Toward Earlier Drought Detection Using Remotely Sensed Precipitation Information and Vegetation Observations from the Reference Environmental Data Record (REDR) Program


Olivier P Prat1, Ronald Leeper1, Jessica L Matthews2, Brian R Nelson3, Steve Ansari4 and James Adams5, (1)Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS), North Carolina State University, Asheville, United States, (2)NOAA/NCEI, Asheville, United States, (3)NOAA Asheville, NCEI/CWC, Asheville, NC, United States, (4)NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, United States, (5)NOAA Asheville, NCEI, Asheville, United States